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Hymn: Faith adds new charms to earthly bliss (FL)

Hymnal: Christian Psalms and Hymns

Date: 1839

Compiler: Walter Scott and Silas Leonard

Publisher/Printer: A S Tilden

First Line: Faith adds new charms to earthly bliss

Topic: <no topic given>

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

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Meter: CM

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Hymn Number: 356

Page Number: 175, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

FAITH adds new charms to earthly bliss,

And saves us from its snares:

It yields support in all our toils,

And softens all our cares.



The wounded conscience knows its power

The healing balm to give;

That balm the saddest heart can cheer,

And make the dying live.



Wide it unvails the heavenly world,

Where endless pleasures reign;

It bids us seek our portion there,

Nor bids us seek in vain.



Faith shows the promises, all sealed

With our Redeemer's blood;

It helps our feeble hope to rest

Upon a faithful God.



There, still unshaken, would we rest,

Till this frail body dies:

And then, on faith's triumphant wing,

To endless glory rise.