Titus Lewis
A variation on the same theme is the following:
| 137 Seek thou, my soul, in earnest, The Rock to build upon, The only place of resting, The sure foundation-stone: How sweet within the river The Rock that will not fail, When every storm is breaking This soul of mine so frail. | |
The author of the latter was the Rev. TITUS LEWIS, a celebrated Baptist minister. He was born at Cilgerran, Pembrokeshire, Feb. 21, 1774, and died at Caermarthen, May 1, 1811. He was a contemporary and co-worker with Christmas Evans, and he spent his brief life in unwearied labours for the pulpit and for native literature. He had very few advantages of early education, and yet he wrote a Political and Religious History of Great Britain, he published a Welsh-English Dictionary, and had most to do with translating Dr. Gill's commentary into Welsh, as well as several other works.