Blest Be The Tie That Binds

John Fawcett's life can certainly be cited as an example of a spiritual leader who sacrificed ambition and person gain for Christian devotion. His first church as a pastor was at a small and impoverished Baptist church in Northern England. After several years he was offered a better paying position at a large and influential church in London. He declined because he did not want to leave the people he had come to love so much. Later he was offered a position as the principle of a Baptist academy in London. Again he declined. He remained at the same small church for the remainder of his life, serving as their pastor for 51 years. During this time he wrote this most fitting hymn.

  8   8 7  8  -8-7  -8    7
Blest b-e the ti-e that binds

 7   7  -6   7  7  6    7   -7
Our hea-rts in Chr-is-tian love;

-8  -8-7 -8   7 8   9  9 -8 -9   8  9
The fe-l-low-sh-ip of ki-n-dred mi-nds

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Is li-ke to th-at a-bove.

Verse 2

Before our Father's throne
We pour our ardent prayers;
Our fears, our hopes, our aims are one,
Our comforts and our cares.

verse 3

We share our mutual woes,
Our mutual burdens bear;
And often for each other flows
The sympathizing tear.

verse 4

When we asunder part
It gives us inward pain;
But we shall still be joined in heart,
And hope to meet again.

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