Hymnal: Fillmore's Harp of Zion
Date: 1867
Compiler: A D Fillmore
Publisher/Printer: R W Carroll & Co
First Line: 'T is darkness here but Jesus smiles
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer: H Perkins
Meter: LM
Tune: Brainerd
Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>
Page Number: 039, click to see hymnal pages
Lyics Tis darkness here, but Jesus smiles;
His presence ev'ry pain beguiles;
he has the wine that cheers the soul,
The oil that makes the wounded whole.
Though fast our feet within these stocks,
Our hands secured with num'rous locks,
No iron chains our thoughts can bind,
There are no fetters for the mind.
Though we are bound, the word is free;
The truth cannot be imprisoned be;
The word shall visit ev'ry land,
Though kings and people all withstand.
The word of life which Jesus sent,
Jails, chains, and swords cannot prevent;
Man cannot keep the world in night,
For God has said, "Let there be light."