{"id":"cw/hymns/misc/071-before-a-journey","corpus":"cw-hymns-misc","type":"hymn","author":"charles-wesley","title":"071 Before A Journey","title_alt":[],"text_basis":null,"date_composed":"1740","date_precision":"year","date_note":null,"numbering":{"bicentennial":null,"jackson_running":null,"sugden":null},"source_edition":{"editor":null,"title":null,"edition":null,"place":null,"publisher":null,"year":null,"volume":null,"pages":null,"scan_url":null,"scan_page_ids":null},"transcription":{"derived_from":null,"corrected_against_scan":false,"corrector":null,"corrected_on":null},"modernization":"none","license_text":"Public Domain Mark 1.0","license_apparatus":"CC BY 4.0","wikidata":null,"prev":null,"next":null,"part_of":"cw-hymns-misc","editorial_note":null,"source_id":"cw-071-before-a-journey","passage_ids":["cw-071-before-a-journey-full"],"word_count":119,"themes_auto":["christology","reign-of-god","universal-redemption"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["cw-071-before-a-journey-full"],"passages":[{"id":"cw-071-before-a-journey-full","author":"charles-wesley","source_id":"cw-071-before-a-journey","source_title":"071 Before A Journey","source_type":"hymn","year":1740,"chunk_index":0,"text":"Before a Journey Lord, we believe; and taste thee good, Thee all-sufficient own, And hunger after heavenly food, And thirst for God alone. Before a Journey. Forth at thy call, O Lord, I go, Thy counsel to fulfill: 'Tis all my business here below, Father, to do thy will. To do thy will, while here I make My short, unfixt abode, An everlasting home I seek, A city built by God. O when shall I my Canaan gain, The land of promis'd ease, And leave this world of sin and pain, This howling wilderness! Come to my help, come quickly, Lord, For whom alone I sigh, O let me hear the gracious word, And get me up, and die!","word_count":119,"source_url":null,"themes":["christology","reign-of-god","universal-redemption"],"is_full_hymn":true,"created_at":"2026-01-29T18:25:35.432336"}]}