Fountain of Good, to Own Thy Love

Fountain of good, to own Thy love,
Our thankful hearts incline;
What can we render, Lord, to Thee,
When all the worlds are Thine?

But Thou hast needy brethren here,
Partakers of Thy grace,
Whose names Thou wilt Thyself confess
Before the Father’s face.

And in their accents of distress
Thy pleading voice is heard;
In them Thou may’st be clothed and fed
And visited and cheered.

Thy face with rev’rence and with love
We in Thy poor would see;
O may we minister to them,
And in them, Lord, to Thee.

Author: Anne Steele

Year: 1760

This hymn is by the prominent 18th-century Baptist hymn-writer Anne Steele (1717–1778). It first appeared in her 1760 collection 'Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional' under the title 'Fountain of Good, to Own Thy Love'. No significant alternate attributions are known.