An amazing story of grace behind "Come Thou Font Of Every Blessing"

Turns out last night was a full Bible study and I have to make a whole seperate post on a story the visiting pastor said.

Know the hymn "Come Thou Font Of Every Blessing?" The author Robert Robinson became converted under the preaching of George Whitefield.

Years later he had drifted and backslided. One day when Robinson was travelling by stagecoach, a woman across from him was humming a hymn? Guess which one it was?

She was unaware he was the hymn's writer, she went into detail about what she liked about the hymn and he replied “Madam, I am the poor, unhappy man who wrote that hymn many years ago—and I would give a thousand worlds, if I had them, to feel now as I felt then.”

She quoted the lines "“Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise.”

After that and thinking of unceasing mercy, it brought him back from being a sheep that had gone astray.

What an amazing story of Christ's grace!

Let us remember though to always be spiritually on guard and remember if this hymn writer fell into backsliding then so can all of us. Be aware of Satan's devices. Stay in the Word and always remember how glorious our Triune and Thrice Holy God is.