241 When in the Madd’ning Maze of Things
John Greenleaf Whittier, 1807-92
Preëminently an experienced person’s meditation on trust in God. The hymn is taken from a poem of 22 stanzas entitled, “The Eternal Goodness,” written apparently without any thought of their being sung. In the first line the editors substituted the initial word “when” for the original “yet.”
For comments on John Greenleaf Whittier see Hymn 173.
MUSIC. ES IST EIN BORN. For comments on this tune see Hymn 99.