With willing hearts we tread

Top Text Author Text Info Tune Timeline Arrangements Page Scans Instances

With willing hearts we tread

Author: Samuel Francis Smith
Published in 57 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	Gather With the Saints (Familiar hymn-tu…

Instrumental
	O God, Beyond All Praising - Hymn Settin…

Handbells
	Sing It Simply (25 Congregational Hymn A…

Representative Text

1 With willing hearts we tread
The path our Saviour trod;
We love th' example of our Head,
The glorious Lamb of God.

2 On thee, on thee alone,
Our hope and faith rely,
O thou who wilt for sin atone,
Who didst for sinners died.

3 We trust thy sacrifice,
To thy dear cross we flee;
O may we die to sin, and rise
To life and bliss in thee.

Source: Christ in Song: for all religious services nearly one thousand best gospel hymns, new and old with responsive scripture readings (Rev. and Enl.) #414

All representative texts • Compare texts ^ top

Author: Samuel Francis Smith

Smith, Samuel Francis, D.D., was born in Boston, U.S.A., Oct. 21, 1808, and graduated in arts at Harvard, and in theology at Andover. He entered the Baptist ministry in 1832, and became the same year editor of the Baptist Missionary Magazine. He also contributed to the Encyclopaedia Americana. From 1834 to 1842 he was pastor at Waterville, Maine, and Professor of Modern Languages in Waterville College. In 1842 he removed to Newton, Massachusetts, where he remained until 1854, when he became the editor of the publications of the Baptist Missionary Union. With Baron Stow he prepared the Baptist collection known as The Psalmist, published in 1843, to which he contributed several hymns. The Psalmist is the most creditable and influential of… Go to person page >

^ top

Text Information

Text Information

First Line:	With willing hearts we tread
Author:	Samuel Francis Smith
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

^ top

Tune

ST. THOMAS (Williams)

ST. THOMAS is actually lines 5 through 8 of the sixteen-line tune HOLBORN, composed by Aaron Williams (b. London, England, 1731; d. London, 1776) and published in his Collection (1763, 1765) as a setting for Charles Wesley's text "Soldiers of Christ, Arise" (570). The harmonization is by Lowell Maso…

Go to tune page >

BADEA

DENNIS (Nägeli)

Lowell Mason (PHH 96) arranged DENNIS and first published it in The Psaltery (1845), a hymnal he compiled with George. Webb (PHH 559). Mason attributed the tune to Johann G. Nageli (b. Wetzikon, near Zurich, Switzerland, 1773; d. Wetzikon, 1836) but included no source reference. Nageli presumably pu…

Go to tune page >

All tunes published with 'With willing hearts we tread'^ top