Hymnal: The Christian Hymn-Book
Date: 1829
Compiler: B W Stone and T Adams
Publisher/Printer: N L Finnell
First Line: Praise everlasting praise be paid
Topic: Trusting in the Promises of God
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 98
Page Number: 103, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsPraise, everlasting praise, be paid
To him, who earth's foundation laid;
Praise to the God, whose strong decrees
Sway the creation as he please.
Praise to the goodness of the Lord,
Who rules his people by his word;
And there, as strong as his decrees,
He sets his kindest promises.
Firm are the words his prophets give,
Sweet words on which his children live,
Each of them is the voice of God,
Who spoke and spread the skies abroad.
Each of them pow'rful as that sound,
Which bade the new-made world go round;
And stronger than the solid poles,
On which the wheel of nature rolls.
Whence then should doubts and fears arise?
Why trickling sorrows drown our eyes?
Slowly, alas! Our mind receives
The comforts, which our Maker gives.
O! for a strong, a lasting faith,
To credit what th' Almighty saith!
T' embrace the message of his Son,
And call the joys of heav'n our own.
Then should the earth's old pillars shake,
And all the wheels of nature break,
Our steady souls would fear no more
Than solid rocks, when billows roar.
Our everlasting hopes arise,
Above the ruinable skies;
Where the eternal Builder reigns,
And his own court his power sustains.