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Hymn: I look to thee in every need (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: I look to thee in every need

Topic: The New Life/Submission and Deliverance

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer:

Meter: CLM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 912

Page Number: 541, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

I look to thee in every need,

And never look in vain;

I feel thy strong and tender love,

And all is well again:

The thought of thee is mightier far

Than sin and pain and sorrow are.



Discouraged in the work of life,

Disheartened by its load,

Shamed by its failures or its fears,

I sink beside the road;

But let me only think of thee,

And then new heart springs up in me.



Thy calmness bends serene above,

My restlessness to still;

Around me flows thy quickening life,

To nerve my faltering will;

Thy presence fills my solitude;

Thy providence turns all to good.



Embosomed in thy cov'nant love,

Held in thy law, I stand;

Thy hand in all things I behold,

And all things in thy hand;

Thou leadest me by unsought ways,

And turn'st my mourning into praise.