Are clouds of deep darkness above thee

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Are clouds of deep darkness above thee

Author: E. G. Wellesley-Wesley
Tune: [Are clouds of deep darkness above thee]
Published in 2 hymnals

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1 Are clouds of deep darkness above thee?
Pray through, pray through;
Do trials and sorrows distress thee?
Pray through, pray through.

Refrain:
Pray through, pray through,
The skies are beginning to clear.
Pray through, pray through,
The end of the struggle draws near.

2 Why fear when temptations distress thee?
Pray through, pray through;
When terrors of night are about thee;
Pray through, pray through. [Refrain]

3 No evil shall harm or beset thee;
Pray through, pray through;
Tho’ snares are outspread to entrap thee;
Pray through, pray through. [Refrain]

4 Most surely the Lord will defend thee;
Pray through, pray through;
His promise can never once fail thee;
Pray through, pray through. [Refrain]

Source: Alexander's Hymns No. 3 #137

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Author: E. G. Wellesley-Wesley

Ernest G. W. Wesley was born and educated in England. At the age of seventeen he started writing for local newspapers. When he was twenty-two he worked as special correspondent for The New York Times in Buenos Aries. While he was in Buenos Aries he became licensed to preach in the Methodist Episcopal Church. He came to the United States in the early 1870's and continued writing and contributing to religious and secular papers. He wrote between five and six hundred hymns and nearly two thousand articles on religious and theological topics. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

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