My faith looks up to Thee,
Thou Lamb of Calvary, Savior divine!
Now hear me while I pray, take all my guilt away,
O let me from this day be wholly Thine!
May Thy rich grace impart
Strength to my fainting heart, my zeal inspire!
As Thou hast died for me, O may my love to Thee,
Pure warm, and changeless be, a living fire!
While life’s dark maze I tread,
And griefs around me spread, be Thou my Guide;
Bid darkness turn to day, wipe sorrow’s tears away,
Nor let me ever stray from Thee aside.
When ends life’s transient dream,
When death’s cold sullen stream over me roll;
Blest Savior, then in love, fear and distrust remove;
O bear me safe above, a ransomed soul!
Ray Palmer was born this date, 11/12/1808, at Little Compton, Rhode Island.
He attended Phillips Andover Academy (had Oliver Wendell Holmes for a school mate there) and attended Yale University. Palmer first taught (New York and Connecticut and later was ordained a Congregational minister. He pastored in Maine and New York. He eventually served as Secretary of the Congregational Union.
Lowell Mason (wrote the music for this) is said to have predicted “You may live many years and do many good things, but I think you will be best known to posterity as the author of “My Faith Looks Up to Thee.” How right Mason was. Palmer retired in 1878 and died 3/29/1887 at Newark, New Jersey.
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