"A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief" is a seven-stanza poem written in 1826 by James Montgomery. The words of the poem have since been adopted as a Christian hymn.
A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief
James Montgomery, 1855
Manchester Hymnal
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In 1840, Brigham Young, Parley P. Pratt and John Taylor published a words-only hymnal for the church in Manchester, England, titled A Collection of Sacred Hymns for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latte
A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief
…in the church by apostle John Taylor, who learned the hymn in 1840 as a missionary in England. Taylor included the hymn in the Latter Day Saints' Manchester Hymnal, which was used in England from 1840 to 1912. The hymn was also included in the church's 1841 hymnal published in Nauvoo, Illinois. Unlike the version…
Title page of Collection of Sacred Hymns, 1840.
1896 The Latter-Day Saints Psalmody 2nd Edition
Example of music in the Latter-day Saints' Psalmody