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In every trying hour

Author: Coombs
Published in 58 hymnals

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Representative Text

1 In every trying hour
My soul to Jesus flies;
I trust in his almighty power
When swelling billows rise.

2 His comforts bear me up;
I trust a faithful God;
The sure foundation of my hope
Is in my Saviour's blood.

3 Loud hallelujahs sing
To our Redeemer's name;
In joy or sorrow, life or death,
His love is still the same.

Source: The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book: for use in divine worship #735

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Author: Coombs

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First Line:	In every trying hour
Title:	The Sure Foundation
Author:	Coombs
Meter:	6.6.8.6
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

Psalm 42:7
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Tune

DENNIS (Nägeli)

Lowell Mason (PHH 96) arranged DENNIS and first published it in The Psaltery (1845), a hymnal he compiled with George. Webb (PHH 559). Mason attributed the tune to Johann G. Nageli (b. Wetzikon, near Zurich, Switzerland, 1773; d. Wetzikon, 1836) but included no source reference. Nageli presumably pu…

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ST. THOMAS (Williams)

ST. THOMAS is actually lines 5 through 8 of the sixteen-line tune HOLBORN, composed by Aaron Williams (b. London, England, 1731; d. London, 1776) and published in his Collection (1763, 1765) as a setting for Charles Wesley's text "Soldiers of Christ, Arise" (570). The harmonization is by Lowell Maso…

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LABAN

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