Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: We love this outward world
Topic: The New Life/Afflictions
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: SM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 1019
Page Number: 603, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsWe love this outward world,
Its fair sky overhead.
Its morning's soft, gray mist unfurled,
Its sunsets rich and red.
But there's a world within
That higher glory hath;
A life the struggling soul must win --
The life of joy and faith.
For this the FAther's love
Doth shade the world of sense,
The bounding play of health remove
And dim the sparkling glance;
That, though the earth grows dull,
And earthly pleasures few,
The spirit gain its wisdom full
To suffer and to do.
Holy this world within,
Unknown to sound or sight --
The world of vict'ry over sin,
Of faith, and love, and light.