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Hymn: O Lord how happy should we be (FL)

Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book

Date: 1882

Compiler: Fillmore Brothers

Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers

First Line: O Lord how happy should we be

Topic: Christian/Afflictions

Writer: J Anstice

Composer: Lowell Mason

Meter: CPM

Tune: Ariel

Hymn Number: 194

Page Number: 066, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

O LORD, how happy should we be,
If we could cast our care on thee;
If we from self could rest,
And feel, at heart, that One above,
In perfect wisdom, perfect love,
Is working for the best!


Help us, O Lord, to trust in thee,
And in our trials still to see
The tokens of thy love;
Let no temptation overcome,
To lure us from the pathway home,
To live with thee above.