Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: O for an overcoming faith
Topic: Christian/Decline of Life
Writer: Isaac Watts
Composer: Thomas Hastings
Meter: CM
Tune: Ortonville
Hymn Number: 313
Page Number: 104, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsO FOR an overcoming faith,
To cheer my dying hours;
To triumph o'er approaching death,
And all his frightful powers!
Joyful, with all the strength I have,
My quivering lip should sing,-
"Where is thy boasted victory, grave?"
And where, O death, thy sting?"
If sin be pardoned, I'm secure-
Death has no sting beside:
The law gives sin its fatal power;
But Christ, my ransom, died.
Now to the God of vic-to-ry
Immortal thanks be paid,
Who makes us conquerors while we die,
Through Christ, our living Head.