{"slug": "leaning-on-the-everlasting-arms", "title": "Leaning on the Everlasting Arms", "first_line": "What a fellowship, what a joy divine", "author": "elisha-a-hoffman", "author_date": "1887", "foot": "trochaic", "meter": {"pattern": [10, 9, 10, 9], "doubled": false, "refrain": true, "alleluia": false, "irregular": false}, "topics": ["Assurance", "Comfort", "Trust", "Peace"], "scripture": ["Deuteronomy 33:27", "Psalm 46:1", "Psalm 91:1-2"], "provenance": {"layer": "text", "source": "tabernacle-hymns-no-2-1921", "source_kind": "hand_encoded", "pd_evidence": "Elisha A. Hoffman (1839-1929), written to A. J. Showalter's music and first published in The Glad Evangel for Revival, Camp, and Evangelistic Meetings (Dalton, Ga.: A. J. Showalter & Co., 1887). Transcribed syllable by syllable, and point by point, from the dated page image of Tabernacle Hymns, No. 2 (Chicago: Tabernacle Publishing Co., c1921), no. 93 \u2014 archive.org tabernaclehymnsn00chic, leaf 98 \u2014 which prints all three stanzas interlinear under the staves, credits \"Rev. E. A. Hoffman.\", and is footed \"Copyright by A. J. Showalter.  Used by permission.\" US public domain: first published 1887, the witness read is itself pre-1931, and the author died in 1929, so it is also PD in life+70 jurisdictions. THE POINTING IS THE 1921 PAGE'S and is not modernised: stanza 1 line 1 and stanza 3 lines 1 and 3 end in commas, the refrain-bearing line 2 of every stanza ends in a semicolon, and STANZA 2 LINE 3 ENDS IN A FULL STOP \u2014 \"Oh, how bright the path grows from day to day.\" \u2014 where a modern editor would set a comma. That full stop is on the page and is reproduced. VARIANTS IN THE OTHER DATED WITNESSES, recorded rather than adopted: The Baptist Standard Hymnal (1924), no. 483 (archive.org baptiststandardh00town, leaf 413) and Showalter's own Class, Choir and Congregation (1888), no. 166 (archive.org classchoirandco00showgoog, leaf 256) both read \"I have peace complete with my Lord so near,\" in stanza 3 where the 1921 page reads \"I have blessed peace with my Lord so near,\"; both also capitalise \"Ev-er-last-ing Arms!\" and close that line with an exclamation mark where the 1921 page sets lower case and a semicolon; and the 1888 page reads \"O how sweet\" where 1921 and 1924 read \"Oh, how sweet\". The 1921 readings ship because the 1921 page is the one leaf this hymn's text, tune and setting were all taken from. One further departure, stated plainly: the 1921 page heads the hymn \"Leaning On the Everlasting Arms.\" with a capital O and a full stop, and the corpus title normalises that to \"Leaning on the Everlasting Arms\".", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}, "hymnary_ids": {"text_auth": "what_a_fellowship_what_a_joy_divine", "total_instances": 764}}, "stanzas": {"1": {"syllabified": "What a fel -- low -- ship, what a joy di -- vine, Lean -- ing on the ev -- er -- last -- ing arms; What a bless -- ed -- ness, what a peace is mine, Lean -- ing on the ev -- er -- last -- ing arms.", "prose": ["What a fellowship, what a joy divine,", "Leaning on the everlasting arms;", "What a blessedness, what a peace is mine,", "Leaning on the everlasting arms."]}, "2": {"syllabified": "Oh, how sweet to walk in this pil -- grim way, Lean -- ing on the ev -- er -- last -- ing arms; Oh, how bright the path grows from day to day. Lean -- ing on the ev -- er -- last -- ing arms.", "prose": ["Oh, how sweet to walk in this pilgrim way,", "Leaning on the everlasting arms;", "Oh, how bright the path grows from day to day.", "Leaning on the everlasting arms."]}, "3": {"syllabified": "What have I to dread, what have I to fear, Lean -- ing on the ev -- er -- last -- ing arms; I have bless -- ed peace with my Lord so near, Lean -- ing on the ev -- er -- last -- ing arms.", "prose": ["What have I to dread, what have I to fear,", "Leaning on the everlasting arms;", "I have blessed peace with my Lord so near,", "Leaning on the everlasting arms."]}}, "refrain": {"syllabified": "Lean -- ing, lean -- ing, Safe and se -- cure from all a -- larms; Lean -- ing, lean -- ing, Lean -- ing on the ev -- er -- last -- ing arms.", "prose": ["Leaning, leaning, Safe and secure from all alarms;", "Leaning, leaning, Leaning on the everlasting arms."]}, "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}