Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing

“Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing” was written by Robert Robinson murning to the young Robert Robinson, the bleary-eyed gipsy fortune-teller pointed a quivering finger and said, And you, young man, you will live to see your children and your grandchildren. Robert Robinson suddenly paled and said, You’re right. Shes too drunk to know what shes saying. Leave her alone. Lets go. Burdens Are Lifted At Calvary – Hymn But her words haunted him the rest of the day. If Im going to live to see my children and grandchildren, he thought, Ill have to change my way of living. That very night, half in fun and half seriously, he took his gang to an open air revival service nearby where the famous evangelist, George Whitfield, was preaching. Well go down and laugh at the poor deluded Methodist, he explained. Two years and seven months after hearing that sermon, twenty-year-old Robert Robinson made his peace with God, and found full and free forgiveness through the precious blood of Jesus Christ. Joining the Methodists, and feeling the call to preach, the self-taught Robinson was appointed by John Wesley to the Calvinist Methodist Chapel, Norfolk, England. And there, for the celebration of Pentecost (Whitsunday), in 1758, three years after his marvelous conversion, he penned his spiritual autobiography in the words of this hymn – Come, Thou Fount.