After a While

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The world of forms and changes

Author: Charles A. Tindley (1901)
Tune: [The world of forms and changes]
Published in 9 hymnals

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1. The world of forms and changes
Is just now so confused
That there is found some danger
In everything you use,
But this is consolation
To every blood-washed child:
The Lord will change our station
After a while.

Refrain:
After a while, after a while,
The Lord will change our station
After a while.

2. Old Satan tries to throw down
Everything that’s good;
He’d fix a way to confound
The righteous if he could,
But thanks to God almighty
That he cannot beguile,
And we will be done fighting
After a while. [Refrain]

3. There are some men and women
Who help the Devil on
By constantly complaining
Of everything that’s done.
They want to be called Christians
And all their badness hide;
God will open the secret,
After a while. [Refrain]

4. I know we have too many
Who are living in the dark;
They have but little, if any,
Of Christian work at heart.
But thousands, though ’tis stormy,
Are marching undefiled,
And God will head the army
After a while. [Refrain]

5. There is a land of promise
Where trials are unknown,
Where Satan never cometh,
For God is on the throne.
And just a little longer,
By faith and self-denial,
We’ll join our friends up yonder
After a while. [Refrain]

Source: Hymns and Devotions for Daily Worship #88b

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Author: Charles A. Tindley

Charles Albert Tindley was born in Berlin, Maryland, July 7, 1851; son of Charles and Hester Tindley. His father was a slave, and his mother was free. Hester died when he was very young; he was taken in my his mother’s sister Caroline Miller Robbins in order to keep his freedom. It seems that he was expected to work to help the family. In his Book of Sermons (1932), he speaks of being “hired out” as a young boy, “wherever father could place me.” He married Daisy Henry when he was seventeen. Together they had eight children, some of whom would later assist him with the publication of his hymns. Tindley was largely self-taught throughout his lifetime. He learned to read mostly on his own. After he and Daisy moved to Philadelphia… Go to person page >

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First Line:	The world of forms and changes
Title:	After a While
Author:	Charles A. Tindley (1901)
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	After a while, after a while
Copyright:	Public Domain