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Text:"What hourly dangers!"
Author:Anne Steele
Tune:COOLING
Composer:A. J. Abbey

323. "What hourly dangers!"

1 Alas! what hourly dangers rise!
What snares beset my way!
To heaven, oh, let me lift mine eyes,
And hourly watch and pray.

2 How oft my mournful thoughts complain,
And melt in flowing tears!
My weak resistance, ah, how vain!
How strong my foes and fears!

3 O gracious God! in whom I live,
My feeble efforts aid;
Help me to watch, and pray, and strive,
Though trembling and afraid.

4 Increase my faith, increase, my hope,
When foes and fears prevail;
And bear my fainting spirit up,
Or soon my strength will fail.

5 Oh, keep me in thy heavenly way,
And bid the tempter flee!
And let me never, never stray
From happiness and thee.

Text Information
First Line: Alas! what hourly dangers rise!
Title: "What hourly dangers!"
Author: Anne Steele
Language: English
Publication Date: 1888
Scripture: ;
Topic: Afflictions; Backsliding; Christians: Conflicts (3 more...)
Tune Information
Name: COOLING
Composer: A. J. Abbey
Meter: C. M.
Key: D Major



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