Adrift On Life's Ocean

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Adrift on life's perilous ocean

Author: Ada Blenkhorn
Tune: [Adrift on life's perilous ocean]
Published in 2 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

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1 Adift on life’s perilous ocean,
No place from the tempest to hide,
Ye storm-toss’d now turn your boat homeward,
Where shelter and comfort abide.

Refrain:
O wanderer, out on life’s ocean,
Borne on by the treacherous tide,
If you take for your guide the dear Savior,
You will ev’ry tempest outride.

2 Beyond there are sorrows and dangers,
And rocks where the wild breakers deep;
The sinner that’s wrecked in the darkness,
Returns to the harbor no more. [Refrain]

3 There’s one who will faithfully guide you
Past dangers unseen on the deep;
He ruleth the wave and the tempest,
And Jesus is mighty to keep. [Refrain]

Source: Sunday-School Praises: prepared especially for use in the Sunday-School #129

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Author: Ada Blenkhorn

Ada Jane Blenkhorn Canada 1858-1927 Born in Cobourg, Ontario, the 10th of 11 children, she emigrated with her family to the U.S. In 1884 and settled in Cleveland, OH.. She was raised a Methodist, and began writing hymn lyrics at age 34. A prolific writer of hymn lyrics, she was about to give it up when a friend encouraged her to continue, telling her some soul might be saved by a hymn she would write. She worked for many years as secretary to her brother, Henry's, real estate company. After his death in 1923, she became president of the company. She never married. John Perry Go to person page >

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First Line:	Adrift on life's perilous ocean
Title:	Adrift On Life's Ocean
Author:	Ada Blenkhorn
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	O wanderer, out on life's ocean
Copyright:	Public Domain