SECOND LIEUTENANT TERENCE WILLIAM HONYCHURCH
MIDDLESEX REGIMENT
22ND SEPTEMBER 1916 AGE 21
BURIED: GROVE TOWN CEMETERY, MEAULTE, FRANCE
If Thou should'st call me to resign
What most I prize, - it ne'er was mine;
I only yield Thee what was Thine; -
"Thy will be done."
Can you see the difference between the verse from the hymn and the inscription? There's no 'if' about this epitaph and there's no 'it' about what was most prized. God did call Second Lieutenant Honychurch's widowed mother to relinquish what she most prized and 'he' was her son.
The final verse of the hymn, 'My God my Father, while I stray', reads:
Renew my will from day to day,
Blend it with Thine, and take away
All that now makes it hard to say,
"Thy will be done."