Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: Nearer my God to thee
Topic: Christian/Aspirations
Writer: <no first name given> Adams
Composer: Lowell Mason
Meter: 6s and 4s double
Tune: Bethany
Hymn Number: 575
Page Number: 211, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsNEARER, my God, to thee,
Nearer to thee;
E'en though it be a cross
That raiseth me!
Still all my song shall be,
Nearer, my God, to thee!
Nearer, my god, to thee!
Nearer to thee!
Though like the wanderer,
Daylight all gone,
Darkness be over me,
My rest a stone;
Yet, in my dreams I'd be
Nearer, my God, to thee,
Nearer to thee.
There let the way appear,
Steps unto heaven;
All that thou sendest me,
In mercy given;
Angels to beckon me
Nearer, my God to thee,
Nearer to thee.
Then, with my waking thoughts
Bright with thy praise,
Out of my stony griefs
Bethel, I'll raise;
So by my woes to be
Nearer, my God, to thee,
Nearer to thee.
Or if, on joyful wing,
Cleaving the sky,
Sun, moon, and stars forgot,
Upward I fly;
Still all my song shall be,
Nearer, my God, to thee!
Nearer to thee!