In the Valley of Silence

Top Media Text Author Text Info Tune Timeline Page Scans Instances

In the valley of silence I walk with my God

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds
Tune: [In the Valley of Silence I walk with my God] (Fillmore 12333)
Published in 5 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 In the Valley of Silence I walk with my God,
Where God and my soul are alone;
And over the path that the angels have trod,
I press, with my hand in His own.

Refrain:
O valley of Silence! O valley of Rest,
Where God and my soul are alone!
In the exquisite stillness all clamoring cease,
And heaven e’en now is my own.

2 In the Valley of Silence I think of my sin,
And long to be stainless and pure;
But God in His goodness is speaking within,
To tell me His mercy is sure. [Refrain]

3 In the Valley of Silence is never a fear,
For God will take care of His won;
So firmly I walk, without tremor or tear,
While God and my soul are alone. [Refrain]

Source: Hymns for Today: for Sunday Schools, Young People's Societies, The Church, The Home, Community Welfare Associations, and Patriotic Meetings #209

All representative texts • Compare texts ^ top

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds

Jessie Brown Pounds was born in Hiram, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland on 31 August 1861. She was not in good health when she was a child so she was taught at home. She began to write verses for the Cleveland newspapers and religious weeklies when she was fifteen. After an editor of a collection of her verses noted that some of them would be well suited for church or Sunday School hymns, J. H. Fillmore wrote to her asking her to write some hymns for a book he was publishing. She then regularly wrote hymns for Fillmore Brothers. She worked as an editor with Standard Publishing Company in Cincinnati from 1885 to 1896, when she married Rev. John E. Pounds, who at that time was a pastor of the Central Christian Church in Indianapolis. A memorab… Go to person page >

^ top

Text Information

Text Information

First Line:	In the valley of silence I walk with my God
Title:	In the Valley of Silence
Author:	Jessie Brown Pounds
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	O valley of silence
Publication Date:	1902
Copyright:	Public Domain