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’Tis my happiness below
Not to live without the cross;
But the Savior’s power to know,
Sanctifying every loss:
Trials must and will befall;
But with humble faith to see
Love inscribed upon them all,
This is happiness to me.
God, in Israel, sows the seeds
Of affliction, pain, and toil;
These spring up, and choke the weeds
Which would else o’erspread the soil:
Trials make the promise sweet,
Trials give new life to prayer;
Trials bring me to his feet,
Lay me low, and keep me there.
Did I meet no trials here,
No chastisement by the way;
Might I not, with reason, fear
I should prove a cast–away:
Bastards may escape the rod,
Sunk in earthly, vain delight;
But the true–born child of GOD,
Must not, would not, if he might.
---Alternative verses---
Trials make the promise sweet,
Trials give new life to prayer;
Trials bring to my Savior's feet,
Lay me low, and keep me there.
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7 7 7 7
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LIST OF LYRIC SOURCES
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| 1854 | # 271 | | 1815 | # 625 | | 1899 | # 535 |
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NOTTINGHAM
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7 7 7 7
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| # 519 | F | | # 212 | G | | # 476 | G | | # 527 | G | | # 616 | G | | # 19 | G | | # 446 | G |
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