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Hymn: When we can not see our way (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: When we can not see our way

Topic: The Gospel/Faith and Repentance

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

Composer:

Meter: 7s

Tune:

Hymn Number: 370

Page Number: 229, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

When we can not see our way,

Let us trust, and still obey;

He who bids us forward go,

Can not fail the way to show.



Though the sea be deep and wide,

Though a passage seem denied;

Fearless let us still proceed,

Since the Lord vouchsafes to lead.



Though it seems the gloom of night,

Though we see no ray of light;

Since the Lord himself is there,

'T is not meet that we should fear.



Night with him is never night,

Where he is, there all is light;

When he calls us, why delay?

They are happy who obey.



Be it ours, then, while we're here,

Him to follow without fear;

Where he calls us, there to go,

What he bids us, that to do.