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I never fear when night is near

Author: James Rowe
Tune: [I never fear when night is near] (Fisher)
Published in 5 hymnals

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1 I never fear when night is near
And hard the hill to climb;
Enough for me if I but see
Just one step at a time.
(Just one step, just one step at a time.)

Chorus:
Just one step at a time,
(Just one step, one step at a time,)
Just one step at a time;
(Just one step, one step at a time;)
Enough for me if I but see
Just one step at a time.

2 Assured that He will care for me,
I'll trust His love sublime,
And press along, with sigh, or song,
Just one step at a time.
(Just one step, just one step at a time.) [Chorus]

3 His way I choose and shall not lose
The path to that fair clime,
For He will show the way to go,
Just one step at a time.
(Just one step, just one step at a time.) [Chorus]

4 My trusting soul will reach the goal,
And hear the home bells chime,
Tho' I but see, make bright for me,
Just one step at a time.
(Just one step, just one step at a time.) [Chorus]

Source: The New Praiseworthy: for the Church and Sunday School #17

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Author: James Rowe

Pseudonym: James S. Apple. James Rowe was born in England in 1865. He served four years in the Government Survey Office, Dublin Ireland as a young man. He came to America in 1890 where he worked for ten years for the New York Central & Hudson R.R. Co., then served for twelve years as superintendent of the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society. He began writing songs and hymns about 1896 and was a prolific writer of gospel verse with more than 9,000 published hymns, poems, recitations, and other works. 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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First Line:	I never fear when night is near
Title:	Just One Step at a Time
Author:	James Rowe
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Just one step at a time
Publication Date:	1915
Copyright:	Public Domain