You may be interested to know that Henry Grattan Guinness (an Irish Protestant minister) and his wife Fanny Fitzgerald Guinness were the parents of Mary Geraldine Guinness Taylor, who -- with her husband, Howard Taylor, one of Hudson Taylor's sons -- co-authored several books about Hudson Taylor and the China Inland Mission. The celebrated writer and Christian apologist Os Guinness is the great-grandson of Henry and Fanny Guinness.
Lord, I lift this song to You in worship. Thank You for bearing my sin that day.
"Crowned with Thorns Upon the Tree"
(Tune: Redhead No. 47, by Richard Redhead [1820-1901])
Performed on SoundCloud (with slightly different lyrics)
by Your Fellowship Rally
by Henry Grattan Guinness (1835-1910) and
Fanny Emma Fitzgerald Guinness (1831-1898)
Crowned with thorns upon the tree,
Silent in Thine agony;
Dying crushed beneath the load,
Of the Wrath and curse of God :
On Thy pale and suffering brow,
Mystery of love and woe,
On Thy grief and sore amaze,
Jesus, I would fix my gaze.
I am weary of my sin,
Weary of the strife within;
Weary of the world's false ways,
Weary of its vanities.
On Thy pierced and bleeding breast
Thou dost bid the weary rest;
Rest them from the world’s false ways,
Rest them from its vanities.
Rest in pardon and relief,
From the load of guilt and grief;
Rest in Thy redeeming blood,
Rest in perfect peace with God.
Sin-atoning Sacrifice,
Thou art precious in my eyes;
Thou alone my rest shall be
Now and through eternity.
(from Hymns of the Cross: selected and arranged,
with introductory meditations, by Mr. and Mrs. H. G. G.
[Henry Grattan Guinness], 1864)