Sailing On Life's Sea

Top Media Text Author Text Info Tune Timeline Page Scans Instances

We are sailors on the sea of life

Author: C. Austin Miles
Tune: [We are sailors on the sea of life]
Published in 3 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 We are sailors on the sea of life,
Youthful and strong;
Gentle breezes sweeping o’er the wave,
Wafting our bark along;
For we are sailing by a heav’nly chart,
‘Tis God’s Holy Word;
Sailing upon the sea of life,
Trusting our Lord.

Refrain:
Sailing, ever sailing
Upon life’s changing sea;
Sailing, ever sailing,
Our pilot Christ shall be;
Sailing, ever sailing,
Across the ocean’s foam;
Trusting our Captain ever true
Shall bring us home.

2 Brightly gleams the polar star above,
Leading us on;
Never failing, shining ever clear,
‘Till all the night is gone,
And day-light rising from the eastern sky,
Followed by the sun,
Finds us a joyous company,
Still sailing on. [Refrain]

3 Calmly sailing, not a storm we fear
By night or day;
We’ve an anchor that securely holds,
When storms sweep o’er our way;
For God Himself shall hold the rolling sea
In His mighty hand;
Surely He’ll bring us one and all
Safely to land. [Refrain]

Source: Jubilate : A Modern Sunday-School Hymnal #25

All representative texts • Compare texts ^ top

Author: C. Austin Miles

Charles Austin Miles USA 1868-1946. Born at Lakehurst, NJ, he attended the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and the University of PA. He became a pharmacist. He married Bertha H Haagen, and they had two sons: Charles and Russell. In 1892 he abandoned his pharmacy career and began writing gospel songs. At first he furnished compositions to the Hall-Mack Publishing Company, but soon became editor and manager, where he worked for 37 years. He felt he was serving God better in the gospel song writing business, than as a pharmacist. He published the following song books: “New songs of the gospel” (1900), “The service of praise” (1900), “The voice of praise” (1904), “The tribute of song” (1904), “New songs of the gospel… Go to person page >

^ top

Text Information

Text Information

First Line:	We are sailors on the sea of life
Title:	Sailing On Life's Sea
Author:	C. Austin Miles
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Sailing, ever sailing
Publication Date:	1917
Copyright:	Public Domain