Learning to Live by Faith

Hymnal Page Scan: Tried and True 44. Light after darkness | Hymnary.org

Audio Recording:

1 Light after darkness, gain after loss,
Strength after weakness, crown after cross;
Sweet after bitter, hope after fears,
Home after wandering, praise after tears.

Refrain:
Now comes the weeping, then the glad reaping;
Now comes the labor hard, then the reward.

2 Sheaves after sowing, sun after rain,
Sight after mystery, peace after pain;
Joy after sorrow, calm after blast,
Rest after weariness, sweet rest at last. [Refrain]

3 Near after distant, gleam after gloom,
Love after loneliness, life after tomb;
After long agony rapture of bliss—
Right was the pathway leading to this. [Refrain]

Hymnal Page Scan: The New Jubilee Harp: or Christian hymns and songs. a new collection of hymns and tunes for public and social worship (With supplement) page 168 | Hymnary.org

Audio Recording:

1. I will watch and wait for the morning’s dawn,
That will end the night of each weary one;
I will sing my song as the days go by,
Marching onward still to my home, so nigh.

Chorus:
I am waiting for the dawning,
Waiting for the dawning,
Waiting for the dawning,
Waiting for the break of day.

2. I will watch and wait till the storm is o’er,
And a light shines out from the golden shore;
Then the Lord will say, “Weary wand’rer, come
To the land of rest, to thy blissful home.” [Chorus]

3. I will watch and wait, for ‘twill not be long
Ere I strike glad hands with the blood-washed throng;
Then I’ll shout and sing while the ages roll,
Hallelujah! Christ hath redeemed my soul! [Chorus]

Hymnal Page Scan: Standard Hymns and Spiritual Songs 370. I hear a loving voice | Hymnary.org

Audio Recording:

1 I hear a loving voice
That calls me o’er and o’er,
That bids me lay my burden down,
And rest for evermore.
I hear a loving voice,—
‘Tis Thine, O Lamb of God,
Who from the cradle to the cross
The path of sorrow trod.

2 I hear Thy warning voice;
O let me not delay;
I must be saved by Thee alone,
There is no other way;
Thy word my only plea,
I come without a fear;
I seek Thee while Thou cans’t be found,
And call while Thou art near.

3 O, patient, loving voice!
O firm, abiding Friend,
I now accept Thy offer’d grace:
Lord, keep me to the end.
My soul with rapture filled,
Thy wonders shall proclaim;
My tongue shall sing Thy righteousness,
My life confess Thy name.

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Audio Recording:

1. O rapturous scenes that wait the day,
When Thou shall call me home,
When I shall here no longer stay,
No longer weep and moan.

2. Long has my heart look’d up to Thee,
My Master and my King,
No other hand can make me free,
And to thy bosom bring.

3. What wondrous grace is this that brings,
My waiting soul to Thee,
That makes me scorn all earthly things,
That I may holy be?

4. Say gracious Lord, where am I now?
Am I Thy servant still?
Shall flesh and blood my soul o’erthrow?
And set at naught Thy will?

5. Nay, but my soul shall rise and fly,
To that bright world above;
The heav’nly Canaan in the sky,
The city of Thy love.

6. Hallelujah! the race is run!
Eternal life is gained.
My happiness has just begun,
The crown of life obtained!

Hymnal Page Scan: Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New page 313 | Hymnary.org

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1. Give us the wings of faith to rise
Within the veil, and see
The saints above, how great their joys,
How bright their glories be.

2. Once they were mourning here below
Their couch was wet with tears;
They wrestled hard, as we do now,
With sins, and doubts and fears.

3. We ask them whence their vic’try came;
They, with united breath,
Ascribe the conquest to the Lamb,
Their triumph to his death.

4. They marked the footsteps that he trod,
His zeal inspired their breast,
And, foll’wing their incarnate God,
They reached the promised rest.

5. Our glorious Leader claims our praise
For his own pattern giv’n,
While the great cloud of witnesses
Show the same path to Heav’n.

Hymnal Page Scan: Great Songs of the Church. number two: a treasury of six hundred sacred songs suitable for all services of the church page 250 | Hymnary.org

Audio Recording:

1 Why did my Savior come to earth,
And to the humble go?
Why did He choose a lowly birth?
Because He loved me so!

Chorus:
He loved me so,
He loved me so;
He gave His precious life for me, for me,
Because, He loved me so.

2 Why did He drink the bitter cup
Of sorrow, pain and woe?
Why on the cross be lifted up?
Because He loved me so! [Chorus]

3 Till Jesus comes I’ll sing His praise,
And then to glory go,
And live with Him thro’ endless days,
Because He loved me so. [Chorus]

Hymnal Page Scan: The New National Baptist Hymnal (21st Century Edition) 403. Far away in the depths of my spirit tonight | Hymnary.org

Audio Recording:

1 Far away in the depths of my spirit tonight
Rolls a melody sweeter than psalm;
In celestial-like strains it unceasingly falls
O’er my soul like an infinite calm.

Refrain:
Peace, peace! wonderful peace,
Coming down from the Father above,
Sweep over my spirit forever, I pray,
In fathomless billows of love.

2 What a treasure I have in this wonderful peace
Buried deep in the heart of my soul,
So secure that no power can mine it away
While the years of eternity roll. [Refrain]

3 I am resting tonight in this wonderful peace,
Resting sweetly in Jesus’ control,
For I’m kept from all danger by night and by day,
And His glory is flooding my soul. [Refrain]

4 And me thinks when I rise to that city of peace
Where the Author of peace I shall see,
That one strain of the song which the ransomed will sing
In that heavenly kingdom shall be: [Refrain]

5 Ah! soul, are you here without comfort and rest,
Marching down the rough pathway of time?
Make Jesus your friend ere the shadows grow dark
O accept this sweet peace so sublime! [Refrain]

Hymnal Page Scan: The New National Baptist Hymnal (21st Century Edition) 304. Savior, more than life to me | Hymnary.org

Audio Recording:

1 Savior, more than life to me,
I am clinging, clinging close to Thee;
let Thy precious blood applied,
keep me ever, ever near Thy side.

Refrain:
Ev’ry day, ev’ry hour
let me feel thy cleansing pow’r;
may Thy tender love to me
bind me closer, closer, Lord, to Thee.

2 Through this changing world below,
lead me gently, gently as I go;
trusting Thee, I cannot stray,
I can never, never lose my way. [Refrain]

3 Let me love Thee more and more,
till this fleeting, fleeting life is o’er;
till my soul is lost in love,
in a brighter, brighter world above. [Refrain]