Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: 'Tis my happiness below
Topic: The New Life/Afflictions
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: 7s
Tune:
Hymn Number: 1023
Page Number: 605, click to see hymnal pages
Lyics'Tismy happiness below,
Not to live without the cross,
But the Saviour's power to know,
Sanctifying every loss.
Trials must and will befall;
But with humble faith to see
Love inscribed upon them all--
This is happiness to me.
Did I meet no trials here,
No chastisement by the way;
Might I not, with reason, fear
I should prove a cast-away?
Trials make the promise sweet;
Trials give new life to prayer;
Rials bring me to his feet--
Lay me low, and keep me there.