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
LyicsO 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.