Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: 'Tis my happiness below
Topic: Christian/Trials
Writer: William Cowper
Composer: L Gottschalk
Meter: 7s
Tune: Mercy
Hymn Number: 456
Page Number: 151, click to see hymnal pages
Lyics'Tis my happiness below
Not to live without the cross,
but the Saviour's power to know
Sanctifying every loss.
Trials must and will befall;
But, with humble faith, to see
Love inscribed upon them all-
This is happiness to me.
Trials make the promise sweet;
Trials give new life to prayer;
Trials bring me to his feet,
Lay me low, and keep me there.