Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Sweet is the pray'r whose holy stream (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised

Date: 1882

Compiler: A I Hobbs et al

Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co

First Line: Sweet is the pray'r whose holy stream

Topic: Prayer

Writer: Unknown Unknown

Composer: Lowell Mason

Meter: CM

Tune: Whitney

Hymn Number: 336

Page Number: 120, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

SWEET is the pray'r whose holy stream

In earnest pleading flows;

Devotion dwells upon the theme,

And warm and warmer glows.



Faith grasps the blessings she desires,

Hope points the upward gaze;

And love, untrembling love, inspires

The eloquence of praise.



But sweeter fare the still small voice,

Heard by no human ear,

When God hath made the heart rejoice,

And dried the bitter tear.



Nor accents flow, nor words ascend;

All utt'rance faileth there;

But God homself doth comprehend,

And hear th' unended pray'r.