When the cares of life are crowd­ing
Thick and fast up­on your soul,
And your light has turned to dark­ness
Ere you reach the longed for goal,
Let your heart be brave and trust­ing,
While you clasp the Sav­ior’s hand;
For, no mat­ter what the bur­den,
He will sure­ly un­der­stand.

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Just to know Je­sus cares,
Just to know Je­sus cares;
In the dark­est night,
O what won­drous light!
Just to know He cares.

What a bless­ing when temp­ta­tions
Come with ov­er­whelm­ing pow­er,
And a sin seems O so lit­tle,
In the weak­ness of the hour,
That we have a lov­ing Je­sus
By whose grace the soul ex­pands,
Gaining strength to meet and con­quer
Just be­cause He un­der­stands.

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When our souls are freed from sor­rows,
And the glad new day has dawned,
We shall see with bright­ened vi­sion
Where the dark des­pairs had yawned.
We may look into the beau­ty
Of His face, in that fair land,
Seeing all its love and glo­ry
When we, too, shall un­der­stand.

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