"Come Thou Fount..."

              Robert Robinson's hymn "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" is a praise song about the mercy of God and salvation. The key word for the allusion in the hymn is the word Ebenezer.  Robinson uses this word in the line "Here I raise my Ebenezer." The Ebenezer stone is mentioned in 1st Samuel 7:12, " Samuel took a large stone and placed it between the towns of Mizpah and Jeshanah. He named it Ebenezer, which means "the stone of help" for he said, 'Up to this point, the Lord has helped us." The following line in the hymn, "Here by thy great help I've come" reflects how the stone was a symbol of God's help. The Hymn says "Prone to wander... prone to leave the God I love." which alludes to the unfaithfulness of the Isrealites to God in the Passage in 1st Samuel.