I Know Not Where the Road Will Lead

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I know not where the road will lead

Author: Evelyn Atwater Cummins (1922)
Published in 8 hymnals

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1 I know not where the road will lead
I follow day by day,
or where it ends: I only know
I walk the King's highway.
I know not if the way is long,
and no one else can say;
but rough or smooth, up hill or down,
I walk the King's highway.

2 And some I love have reached the end,
but some with me may stay,
their faith and hope still guiding me:
I walk the King's highway.
The way is truth, the way is love,
for light and strength I pray,
and through the years of life, to God
I walk the King's highway.

3 The countless hosts lead on before,
I must not fear nor stray;
with them, the pilgrims of the faith,
I walk the King's highway.
Through light and dark the road leads on
till dawns the endless day,
when I shall know why in this life
I walk the King's highway.

Source: The Worshiping Church #643

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Author: Evelyn Atwater Cummins

Born: May 17, 1891, Poughkeepsie, New York. Died: August 30, 1971, Poughkeepsie, New York. Cummins attended the National Cathedral School in Washington, DC, and the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, New York. She married Alexander G. Cummins, rector of Christ Church in Poughkeepsie, New York. An active writer, she served as the associate editor (1926-46) and publisher (1946-47) of The Chronicle, and was also associated with The Living Church (1926-29), and the Poughkeepsie Evening Star (1940-43). In the civic arena, Cummins served with the Poughkeepsie War Council, the Diocesan Board of Religious Education, the Federal Council o… Go to person page >

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First Line:	I know not where the road will lead
Title:	I Know Not Where the Road Will Lead
Author:	Evelyn Atwater Cummins (1922)
Meter:	8.6.8.6 D
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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LARAMIE

MANOAH (Greatorex)

MANOAH was first published in Henry W. Greatorex's Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes (1851). This anthology (later editions had alternate titles) contained one of the best tune collections of its era and included thirty-seven original compositions and arrangements by compiler Greatorex as well as m…

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NOEL (Sullivan)

The tune NOEL (also used at 185) is also known as EARDISLEY or GERARD. Arthur Seymour Sullivan (b Lambeth, London. England. 1842; d. Westminster, London, 1900) adapted this traditional English melody (probably one of the variants of the folk song "Dives and Lazarus"), added phrases of his own to rec…

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