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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: O for a strong a lasting faith (FL)

Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book

Date: 1882

Compiler: Fillmore Brothers

Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers

First Line: O for a strong a lasting faith

Topic: Faith

Writer: Isaac Watts

Composer: I Woodbury

Meter: LM

Tune: Blessing

Hymn Number: 157

Page Number: 055, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

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 heaven our own!



Then, should the earth's old pillars shake,

And all the wheels of nature break,

Our steady souls should fear no more

Than solid rocks when billows roar.