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Hymnal Number
623Resource Type:
Keys included:
F
About this Hymn
The author of this hymn caught a severe illness while returning home from a trip to Switzerland, which brought her close to death. But despite her terrible condition she felt an overwhelming sense of peace. "My one wish was to glorify God and to let my doctor and nurse see it; so at the very first I determined to ask for nothing and just obey. . . . Sometimes I could not quite see his face, yet there was his promise, 'I will never leave thee.' I knew he said it and that he was there." Isaiah 26:3 states, "You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you." This hymn paints the picture of this peace.
Lyrics
Verse 1
Like a river glorious is God's perfect peace, over all victorious in its bright increase; perfect, yet it floweth fuller ev'ry day; perfect, yet it groweth deeper all the way.
Chorus
Stayed upon Jehovah, hearts are fully blest; finding, as he promised, perfect peace and rest.
Verse 2
Hidden in the hollow of his blessed hand, never foe can follow, never traitor stand; not a surge of worry, not a shade of care, not a blast of hurry touch the spirit there.
Verse 3
Ev'ry joy or trial falleth from above, traced upon our dial by the Sun of Love; we may trust him fully all for us to do; they who trust him wholly find him wholly true.
Like a river glorious is God's perfect peace, over all victorious in its bright increase; perfect, yet it floweth fuller ev'ry day; perfect, yet it groweth deeper all the way.
Chorus
Stayed upon Jehovah, hearts are fully blest; finding, as he promised, perfect peace and rest.
Verse 2
Hidden in the hollow of his blessed hand, never foe can follow, never traitor stand; not a surge of worry, not a shade of care, not a blast of hurry touch the spirit there.
Verse 3
Ev'ry joy or trial falleth from above, traced upon our dial by the Sun of Love; we may trust him fully all for us to do; they who trust him wholly find him wholly true.
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Attribution & Copyright
Words: Frances Ridley Havergal, 1874
Music: James Mountain, 1876
Music: James Mountain, 1876