Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: O for an overcoming faith
Topic: The Present and the Future/Life and Death
Writer: <no first name given> Watts
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 1063
Page Number: 628, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsO for an overcoming faith
To cheer my dying hours.
To triumph o'er the monster death,
And all his frightful powers.
Joyful with all the strength I have
My quivering lips shall sing,
Where is thy boasted victory, grave?
And where the monster's sting?
If sin be pardon'd I'm secure,
Death has no sting beside;
The law gives sin its damning power,
But Christ my ransom died.
Now to the God of victory
Immortal thanks be paid,
Who makes us conquerors while we die,
Through Christ our living Head.