{"id":2234,"date":"2019-11-03T17:00:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T17:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/?p=2234"},"modified":"2019-11-03T17:00:41","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T17:00:41","slug":"the-hymn-story-of-tis-so-sweet-to-trust-in-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/03\/the-hymn-story-of-tis-so-sweet-to-trust-in-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hymn Story of \u201cTis So Sweet To Trust in Jesus\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cThat we should be to the praise of his glory, who\nfirst trusted in Christ. In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word\nof truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye\nwere scaled with that holy Spirit of promise\u201d (Ephesians I: 12-13 ). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018\u201dTis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus,\u201d was written by\na most remarkable woman, Louisa M. R. Stead, out or one or her darkest\nhours-the tragic drowning of her husband. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Louisa Stead was born about 1850, at Dover, England. As a\nyoungster she felt the call of God upon her life for missionary service. She\narrived in America in 1871, and she lived for a time in Cincinnati, Ohio. In\n1875, Louisa married a Mr. Stead, and to this union was born a daughter, Lily.\nWhen the child was four years of age, the family decided one day to enjoy the\nsunny beach at Long Island Sound, New York. While eating their picnic lunch,\nthey suddenly heard cries of help and spotted a drowning boy in the sea. Mr.\nStead charged into the water. As often happens, however, the struggling boy\npulled his rescuer under the water with him, and both drowned before the\nterrified eyes of wife and daughter. Out of her \u201cwhy?\u201d struggle with\nGod during the ensuing days flowed these meaningful words from the soul of\nLouisa Stead: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus, just to take Him at His\nWord; Just to rest upon His promise; just to know, \u201cThus saith the Lord.\n\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A short time later, Mrs. Stead and her daughter left for\nSouth Africa, where Louisa worked diligently as a missionary in the Cape Colony\nfor the next fifteen years. Here she married Robert Wodehouse, a native of\nSouth Africa. In 1895, Louisa\u2019s failing health made it necessary for the family\nto return to America for her recuperation, during which time Mr. Wodehouse\npastored a local Methodist church. By 1900, Louisa\u2019s health had improved\nsufficiently for the family to return once more to the missionary station at\nUmtali, in Southern Rhodesia. Something of her same life-long trust in God can be\nlearned from a communique Louisa sent back shortly after her arrival: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn connection with this whole mission there are\nglorious possibilities, but one cannot, in the face of the peculiar\ndifficulties, help say, \u2018Who is sufficient for these things!\u2019 But with simple\nconfidence and trust, we may and do say, \u2018Our sufficiency is of God.'\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After ten years of further service, ill health again forced\nLouisa to retire. Her daughter, Lily, who had become Mrs. D. A. Carson,\ncontinued to serve for many additional years in the mission field of Southern\nRhodesia. After several years of prolonged illness, Louisa Stead Wodehouse died\non January 18, 1917, at her home in Penkridge, near the Mutambara Mission,\nabout fifty miles from Umtali. After her death, a fellow missionary wrote\nconcerning the continued use of \u201cTis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus\u201d: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe miss her very much, but her influence goes on as\nour five thousand native Christians continually sing this hymn in their native\nlanguage.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"