Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: When adverse winds and waves arise (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: When adverse winds and waves arise

Topic: The New Life/Submission and Deliverance

Writer: <no first name given> Sigourney

Composer:

Meter: LM six lines

Tune:

Hymn Number: 903

Page Number: 535, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

When adverse winds and waves arise,

And in my heart despondence sighs;

When life her throng of cares reveals,

And weakness o'er my spirit steals,

Grateful I hear the kind decree,

That "as my day, my strength shall be."



When, with sad footsteps, memory moves

'Mid smitten joys and buried loves,

When sleep my tearful pillow flies,

And dewy morning drinks my sighs,

Still to thy promise, Lord! I flee,

That "as my day, my strength shall be."



One trial more must yet be past:

One pang--the keenest and the last;

And when, with brow convulsed and pale,

My feeble, quivering heart-strings fail,

Redeemer! grant my soul to see

That "as my day, my strength shall be."