“LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED.”
By E. H. Gates
TUNE: “Blessed words of Jesus.” When angry storms are beating,
When, weak and tempest-tossed,
You cry with bitter weeping,
“Lord, help, or I am lost.”
Still on some word of Jesus
Your soul may all be stayed,
Let not your heart be troubled,
Nor let it be afraid. CHORUS.—Oh! blessed words of Jesus!
Why should we be afraid,
Since he will never leave us,
Nor let us be dismayed? Should direst hopes be floating,
Like drift-wood on the sea,
Each treasure with the keeping,
Shall yet come back to thee;
Thy God is watching o’er thee,
Go forward undismayed;
Let not your heart be troubled,
Nor let it be afraid. CHORUS.—Oh! blessed words of Jesus! &c. When care and grief oppress you,
When sore temptations try,
And when no star of promise
Breaks through the clouded sky,
Remembering how the Saviour
For all his children prayed,
Let not your heart be troubled,
Nor let it be afraid. CHORUS.—Oh! blessed words of Jesus! &c. When from the great hereafter,
A voice doth call, and call,
And from your failing fingers
The pilgrim staff shall fall,
Still leaning on some promise
Your risen Lord has made,
Let not your heart be troubled,
Nor let it be afraid. CHORUS.—Oh! blessed words of Jesus!
Why should we be afraid,
Since he will never leave us,
Nor let us be dismayed?