Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: All as God wills who wisely heeds
Topic: Christian/Afflictions
Writer: J Whittier
Composer: Thomas Hastings
Meter: CM
Tune: Ortonville
Hymn Number: 315
Page Number: 105, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsALL as God wills, who wisely heeds
To give or to withhold,
And knoweth more of all my needs
Than all my prayers have told.
Enough that blessings undeserved,
Have marked my erring track;
That, wheresoe'er my feet have swerved,
His chastening turned me back;
That more and more a Providence
Of love is understood,
Making the springs of time and sense
Sweet with eternal good;
That death seems but a covered way
Which opens into light,
Wherein no blinded child can stray
Beyond the Father's sight.