Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised
Date: 1882
Compiler: A I Hobbs et al
Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co
First Line: O for an overcoming faith
Topic: Death/Preparation for
Writer: Isaac Watts
Composer: William Tansur
Meter: CM
Tune: Barby
Hymn Number: 71
Page Number: 031, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsO FOR an overcoming faith,
To cheer my dying hours;
To triumph o'er approaching death,
And all his frightful pow'rs.
Joyful, with all the strength I have,
My quiv'ring lip should sing,--
"Where is thy boasted vict'ry, grave?
And where, O death, thy sting?"
If sin be pardon'd, I'm secure--
Death has no sting beside;
The law gives sin its fatal pow'r;
But Christ, my ransom, died.
Now to the God of victory
Immortal thanks be paid,
Who makes us conqu'rors while we die,
Through Christ, our living Head.