{"slug": "tis-so-sweet-to-trust-in-jesus", "title": "'Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus", "first_line": "'Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus", "author": "louisa-m-r-stead", "author_date": "1882", "foot": "trochaic", "meter": {"pattern": [8, 7, 8, 7], "doubled": false, "refrain": true, "alleluia": false, "irregular": false}, "topics": ["Trust", "Assurance", "Faith", "Comfort", "Peace", "Blood", "Promises (see also Gospel)", "Jesus"], "scripture": ["Psalm 84:12", "Proverbs 3:5", "Jeremiah 17:7"], "provenance": {"layer": "text", "source": "songs-of-triumph-1882", "source_kind": "hand_encoded", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "Louisa M. R. Stead (c. 1850\u20131917), written 1882. Transcribed word for word off the page image of its first publication, Songs of Triumph (Philadelphia: National Publishing Association for the Promotion of Holiness, 1882), No. 46, printed p. 46, where all four stanzas are set interlinear under the music and the plate is footed \"Copyright, 1882, by W. J. Kirkpatrick\" (archive.org/details/songsoftriumphad00insk, JP2 leaf songsoftriumphad00insk_0052). Cross-read against The Epworth Hymnal No. 2 (1891), No. 62, p. 61, which sets stanza 1 interlinear and stanzas 2\u20134 as prose below (archive.org/details/epworthhymnalno200meth, leaf 0065). The pointing here is the 1882 plate's, read off the image, INCLUDING its inconsistencies \u2014 \"Him at His Word\" but \"his promise\" in stanza 1, and lower-case \"him\" throughout the refrain. THREE DEPARTURES, all supplied from the 1891 Epworth printing and stated here rather than hidden: (1) the 1882 plate prints NO terminal stop after \"cleansing flood\" (stanza 2, line 4); a full stop is supplied. (2) It prints no terminal stop after \"Friend\" (stanza 4, line 2), where its interlinear line runs to the edge of the plate; a semicolon is supplied. (3) It prints \"learn'ed\" (stanza 4, line 1), an apostrophe before a set -e, underlaid to a SINGLE note; the 1891 Epworth prints \"learned\", and that is the form carried here. The refrain ends \"trust him more.\" with a full stop in 1882; the 1891 Epworth prints \"more!\" \u2014 the 1882 stop is kept. Glyphs, not pointing: the plate sets typographic apostrophes (\"'Tis\", \"I've\", \"prov'd\", \"o'er\"); these are carried as ASCII apostrophes, the convention of 528 of this corpus's texts. Public domain: first published 1882, author d. 1917.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}, "hymnary_ids": {"text_auth": "tis_so_sweet_to_trust_in_jesus_just_to"}}, "stanzas": {"1": {"syllabified": "'Tis so sweet to trust in Je -- sus, Just to take Him at His Word; Just to rest up -- on his prom -- ise; Just to know, \u201cThus saith the Lord.\u201d", "prose": ["'Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus,", "Just to take Him at His Word;", "Just to rest upon his promise;", "Just to know, \u201cThus saith the Lord.\u201d"]}, "2": {"syllabified": "O, how sweet to trust in Je -- sus, Just to trust His cleans -- ing blood; Just in sim -- ple faith to plunge me 'Neath the heal -- ing, cleans -- ing flood.", "prose": ["O, how sweet to trust in Jesus,", "Just to trust His cleansing blood;", "Just in simple faith to plunge me", "'Neath the healing, cleansing flood."]}, "3": {"syllabified": "Yes, 'tis sweet to trust in Je -- sus, Just from sin and self to cease; Just from Je -- sus sim -- ply tak -- ing Life, and rest, and joy, and peace.", "prose": ["Yes, 'tis sweet to trust in Jesus,", "Just from sin and self to cease;", "Just from Jesus simply taking", "Life, and rest, and joy, and peace."]}, "4": {"syllabified": "I'm so glad I learned to trust Thee, Pre -- cious Je -- sus, Sav -- iour, Friend; And I know that thou art with me, Wilt be with me to the end.", "prose": ["I'm so glad I learned to trust Thee,", "Precious Jesus, Saviour, Friend;", "And I know that thou art with me,", "Wilt be with me to the end."]}}, "refrain": {"syllabified": "Je -- sus, Je -- sus, how I trust him; How I've prov'd him o'er and o'er. Je -- sus, Je -- sus, Pre -- cious Je -- sus! O for grace to trust him more.", "prose": ["Jesus, Jesus, how I trust him;", "How I've prov'd him o'er and o'er.", "Jesus, Jesus, Precious Jesus!", "O for grace to trust him more."]}, "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}