6914 | The Cyber Hymnal#6915 | 6916 |
Text: | Trusting Jesus (Stites) |
Author: | Edgar Page Stites |
Tune: | [Simply trusting every day] |
Composer: | Ira David Sankey |
Media: | MIDI file |
1. Simply trusting every day,
Trusting through a stormy way;
Even when my faith is small,
Trusting Jesus, that is all.
Refrain
Trusting as the moments fly,
Trusting as the days go by;
Trusting Him whate’er befall,
Trusting Jesus, that is all.
2. Brightly does His Spirit shine
Into this poor heart of mine;
While He leads I cannot fall;
Trusting Jesus, that is all. [Refrain]
3. Singing if my way is clear,
Praying if the path be drear;
If in danger for Him call;
Trusting Jesus, that is all. [Refrain]
4. Trusting Him while life shall last,
Trusting Him till earth be past;
Till within the jasper wall,
Trusting Jesus, that is all. [Refrain]
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Simply trusting every day |
Title: | Trusting Jesus (Stites) |
Author: | Edgar Page Stites (1876) |
Refrain First Line: | Trusting as the moments fly |
Language: | English |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Notes: | The lyrics first appeared as a poem in a newspaper. They were given to Ira Sankey’s partner Dwight Moody, who asked Sankey to write music for them. "About two years ago," writes a minister, “I visited a woman who was suffering from an incurable disease; but great as was her agony of body, her distress of mind was greater still. One day she said: ‘The future is so dark, I dare not look forward at all.’ “To my question, ‘Can’t you trust yourself in God’s hands?’ She replied: ‘No, I can’t leave myself there.’ "I repeated the hymn, "Simply trusting every day," and especially dwelt on the refrain, "Trusting as the moments fly, trusting as the days go by." "Ah," she said, "I can trust him this moment; is it like that?" I then sang the hymn to her, and the change that came over her was wonderful. She never lost this trust, and she had the page in her hymn-book turned down, that she might have the hymn read to her. After many months of intense suffering she passed away, "simply trusting," to the land where there shall be no more pain." Sankey, p. 291 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | [Simply trusting every day] |
Composer: | Ira David Sankey |
Incipit: | 32433 21161 65132 |
Key: | G Major |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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