Afternoon Cover Music

Come thou Fount is probably one of the most popular hymns ever written. It was written by Robert Robinson, who lost his father at the age of 5. His mother’s father had never accepted the marriage which had joined young Robert’s wealthy mother and his poor father; consequently, he had no father figure and no grandfather. Robert eventually moved at 14 to London to become an apprentice to a barber. London grew him in wild ways by all account. One night at the age of 17 he and his friends set out to go to an evangelistic meeting…chiefly to make fun of that meeting. That night he heard George Whitfield preach from Matthew about fleeing God’s wrath. This left him unsettled for the next three years. He eventually acquiesced to his notions of faith. At the age of 22 before a sermon he sat down and wrote the words to Come thou Fount.