Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: Alas what hourly dangers rise
Topic: Christ/Refuge
Writer: Anne Steele
Composer: R Simpson
Meter: CM
Tune: Balerma
Hymn Number: 257
Page Number: 086, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsALAS! what hourly dangers rise!
What snares beset my way!
To heaven, O let me lift mine eyes,
And hourly watch and pray.
O gracious God, in whom I live,
My feeble efforts aid;
Help me to watch and pray and strive,
Though trembling and afraid.
Increase my faith, increase my hope,
When foes and fears prevail;
And bear my fainting spirit up,
Or soon my strength will fail.
O keep me in thy heavenly way,
And bid the tempter flee;
And let me never, never stray
From happiness and thee.