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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Kind are the words that Jesus speaks (FL)

Hymnal: A Selection of Christian Hymns

Date: 1818

Compiler: Rice Haggard

Publisher/Printer: John Norvell

First Line: Kind are the words that Jesus speaks

Topic: God Perfect

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer:

Meter: CM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 243

Page Number: 231, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Kind are the words that Jesus speaks

To cheer the drooping saint;

"My grace sufficient is for you,

"Tho' nature's powers may faint.



"My grace its glories shall display,

"And make your griefs remove;

"Your weakness shall the triumphs tell

"Of boundless power and love."



What tho' my griefs are not remov'd,

Yet why should I despair?

While my kind Saviour's arms support,

I can the burden bear.



Jesus, my Saviour, and my Lord,

'Tis good to trust thy name:

Thy power, thy faithfulness and love

Will ever be the same.



Weak as I am, yet thro' thy grace

I all things can perform;

And smiling triumph in thy name,

Amid the raging storm.