Hymns A&M was the brainchild of Herefordshire Vicar Henry Williams Baker (see my blog on Monkland). It proved a very useful book, but did of course involve editorial choices. One was to omit a verse from Charles Wesley’s “Forth in thy name I go” that gives us pause for the thought - both the verse and the decision to omit it:
“Preserve me from my calling’s snare,
And hide my simple heart above,
Above the thorns of choking care,
The gilded baits of worldly love.”