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[Courage, mother, though your children stray]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Guy Irving Waltz Tune Key: A Flat Major Incipit: 37255 65532 13234 Used With Text: Better Days Are Dawning

Author: Annie Lewis Pinfold Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: Courage, mother, though your children stray Refrain First Line: Better days are dawning; joy will come at last Lyrics: 1. Courage, mother, though your children stray Far from paths of love and peace away. Work on, pray on, though the sky’s o’ercast; Better days are dawning, and joy will come at last. Refrain Better days are dawning; joy will come at last God will hear and answer, as in ages past. Work on, pray on, though the sky’s o’ercast; Better days are dawning, and joy will come at last. 2. Cease not praying, sad, disheartened wife, For the one that’s dearer far than life. Work on, pray on, though the sky’s o’ercast; Better days are dawning, and joy will come at last. [Refrain] 3. Weary sufferer, through long hours of pain, By you stands the Comforter again. Work on, pray on, though the sky’s o’ercast; Better days are dawning, and joy will come at last. [Refrain] 4. All who falter ’neath a load of care, Christ will aid, your heavy burdens share. Work on, pray on, though the sky’s o’ercast; Better days are dawning, and joy will come at last. [Refrain] Used With Tune: [Courage, mother, though your children stray] Text Sources: The Old Story in Song Number Two, by William J. Kirkpatrick et al. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The Praise Publishing Company, 1908), number 99

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Better Days Are Dawning

Author: Annie Lewis Pinfold Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #488 First Line: Courage, mother, though your children stray Refrain First Line: Better days are dawning; joy will come at last Lyrics: 1. Courage, mother, though your children stray Far from paths of love and peace away. Work on, pray on, though the sky’s o’ercast; Better days are dawning, and joy will come at last. Refrain Better days are dawning; joy will come at last God will hear and answer, as in ages past. Work on, pray on, though the sky’s o’ercast; Better days are dawning, and joy will come at last. 2. Cease not praying, sad, disheartened wife, For the one that’s dearer far than life. Work on, pray on, though the sky’s o’ercast; Better days are dawning, and joy will come at last. [Refrain] 3. Weary sufferer, through long hours of pain, By you stands the Comforter again. Work on, pray on, though the sky’s o’ercast; Better days are dawning, and joy will come at last. [Refrain] 4. All who falter ’neath a load of care, Christ will aid, your heavy burdens share. Work on, pray on, though the sky’s o’ercast; Better days are dawning, and joy will come at last. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [Courage, mother, though your children stray]

Better Days are Dawning

Author: Annie Lewis Pinfold Hymnal: The Old Story in Song Number Two #99 (1908) First Line: Courage, mother, though your children stray Refrain First Line: Better days are dawning; joy will come at last Tune Title: [Courage, mother, though your children stray]

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Annie Lewis Pinfold

1870 - 1970 Author of "Better Days Are Dawning" in The Cyber Hymnal Annie L. Pinfold was born in Windsor, England in 1870. She later lived in a small town near the border of Maine and New Hampshire.She started writing short stories for Sunday school publications but then started writing hymns. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)