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[Are you building your house on the rock or the sand]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Daniel Brink Towner Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 13555 35666 55566
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My House Will Stand

Author: Herbert J. Bryce Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Are you building your house on the rock or the sand Refrain First Line: Let rains descend and tempests sweep Lyrics: 1. Are you building your house on the rock or the sand, Are you living for time or the ages to be? Do you know that your structure, though shaken, will stand, Unharmed by the tempests which sweep o’er the sea? Refrain Let rains descend and tempests sweep; Let floods arise and billows leap; My house will stand ’neath every shock, For I have built upon the Rock. 2. O the Lord is the Rock; our Foundation is tried, And is changeless today as in centuries flown, Though by men once rejected, He still doth abide, He’s the blest Rock of Ages, the great Living Stone. [Refrain] 3. Though the billows may beat and the hurricane blow, I am fearless and calm in the face of the gale; For the Word of Jehovah is sure, and I know, Having built on my Savior, they cannot prevail. [Refrain] Used With Tune: [Are you building your house on the rock or the sand] Text Sources: Songs of the Great Salvation, by William M. Runyan and Daniel Towner (Wichita, Kansas: The Runyan Music Pub. Co., circa 1919), number 16
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My House Will Stand

Author: Herbert J. Bryce Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #4426 First Line: Are you building your house on the rock or the sand Refrain First Line: Let rains descend and tempests sweep Lyrics: 1. Are you building your house on the rock or the sand, Are you living for time or the ages to be? Do you know that your structure, though shaken, will stand, Unharmed by the tempests which sweep o’er the sea? Refrain Let rains descend and tempests sweep; Let floods arise and billows leap; My house will stand ’neath every shock, For I have built upon the Rock. 2. O the Lord is the Rock; our Foundation is tried, And is changeless today as in centuries flown, Though by men once rejected, He still doth abide, He’s the blest Rock of Ages, the great Living Stone. [Refrain] 3. Though the billows may beat and the hurricane blow, I am fearless and calm in the face of the gale; For the Word of Jehovah is sure, and I know, Having built on my Savior, they cannot prevail. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [Are you building your house on the rock or the sand]
My House Will Stand

My House Will Stand

Author: Herbert J. Bryce Hymnal: Songs of the Great Salvation #16 (1918) First Line: Are you building your house on the rock or the sand Refrain First Line: Let rains descend and tempests sweep Languages: English Tune Title: [Are you building your house on the rock or the sand]
My House Will Stand

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D. B. Towner

1850 - 1919 Person Name: Daniel Brink Towner Composer of "[Are you building your house on the rock or the sand]" in The Cyber Hymnal Used pseudonyms Robert Beverly, T. R. Bowden ============================== Towner, Daniel B. (Rome, Pennsylvania, 1850--1919). Attended grade school in Rome, Penn. when P.P. Bliss was teacher. Later majored in music, joined D.L. Moody, and in 1893 became head of the music department at Moody Bible Institute. Author of more than 2,000 songs. --Paul Milburn, DNAH Archives
D. B. Towner

Herbert J. Bryce

Author of "My House Will Stand" in The Cyber Hymnal
Herbert J. Bryce
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