Scripture Verse

Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of My righteousness. Isaiah 41:10

Introduction

Words: Kate Ul­mer, in Make His Praise Glo­ri­ous, ed­it­ed by Ed­win O. Ex­cell (Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois: E. O. Ex­cell, 1900), num­ber 45.

Music: Hen­ry W. New­ton (🔊 pdf nwc).

If you know where to get a good pho­to of Ul­mer or New­ton (head & shoul­ders, at least 200×300 pix­els),

Lyrics

I fear not the clouds that my sky may be­dim,
For Je­sus hath bid­den me look un­to Him;
Tho’ dark­er than mid­night the cloud’s som­ber hue,
His love and His mer­cy in beau­ty shine thro’.

Refrain

I’ve no­thing to fear as I go on my way,
Nothing to fear, no­thing to fear.
His pre­sence is with me by night and by day,
Nothing to fear, no­thing to fear.

Each sor­row, each bur­den, each tri­al and care,
He lov­ingly, ten­der­ly with me doth share;
His grace is suf­fi­cient, a boun­ti­ful store,
And free­ly ’tis giv­en I’ve proved o’er and o’er.

Refrain

When all seems but sun­shine, and glad­ness and peace,
Then oh, how His pre­sence the joy doth in­crease;
To know He is with me in fel­low­ship sweet,
Is bliss be­yond tell­ing, is rap­ture com­plete.

Refrain

So on­ward I jour­ney, still trust­ing His love,
I know He will lead me to man­sions above;
In yon­der fair c­ity where He is the light,
Where com­eth no sor­row and fall­eth no night.

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