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Hymn: Guide us Lord while hand in hand (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal

Date: 1871

Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee

Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall

First Line: Guide us Lord while hand in hand

Topic: Times and Seasons

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer: L Mason

Meter: 7s double

Tune: Eltham

Hymn Number: 814

Page Number: 309, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Guide us, Lord, while, hand in hand,

Journeying toward the better land;

Foes we know are to be met,

Snares the pilgrim's path beset;

Clouds upon the valley rest,

Rough and dark the mountain's breast;

And our home can not be gained,

Save through trials well sustained.



Guide us while we onward move,

Linked in closest bonds of love,

Striving for the holy mind.

And the soul from sense refined;

That when life no longer burns,

And the dust to dust returns,

With the strength which thou hast given,

We may rise to thee and heaven.