{"slug": "trust-and-obey", "title": "Trust and Obey", "first_line": "When we walk with the Lord", "author": "john-h-sammis", "author_date": "1887", "foot": "anapestic", "meter": {"pattern": [6, 6, 9], "doubled": true, "refrain": true, "alleluia": false, "irregular": false}, "topics": ["Obedience", "Trust", "Consecration", "Christian Life", "Fellowship"], "scripture": ["Psalm 25:14", "1 Samuel 15:22", "John 14:23"], "provenance": {"layer": "text", "source": "hymns-new-and-old-1887", "source_kind": "hand_encoded", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "John H. Sammis (1846-1919). Transcribed syllable by syllable from the FIRST printing: Hymns New and Old, for Use in Gospel Meetings and Other Religious Services, comp. D. B. Towner (Chicago: Fleming H. Revell, 1887), no. 59 \u2014 archive.org item hymnsnewoldforus00town, leaf n62 (the 63rd scanned image), which is headed \"No. 59. Trust and Obey.\", carries the epigraph \"The secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him.\" Ps. 25: 14, is credited \"Rev. J. H. SAMMIS.\" at the upper left and \"D. B. TOWNER.\" at the upper right, and is signed at the foot \"Copyright, 1887, by D. B. Towner.\" Five numbered stanzas and a \"Chorus.\" US public domain by publication before 1929; the author died in 1919, so also PD in life+70 jurisdictions. The 1887 page's own readings are kept where later hymnals differ: stanzas 2 and 3 read \"nor\" (not \"or\"), stanza 4 reads \"And the joy He bestows\" (not \"for the joy\"), and the chorus reads \"To be happy IN Jesus\" (not \"with Jesus\"). Divine pronouns are capitalised here as the 1887 page sets them.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}, "hymnary_ids": {"text_auth": "when_we_walk_with_the_lord", "total_instances": 565}}, "stanzas": {"1": {"syllabified": "When we walk with the Lord In the light of His word, What a glo -- ry He sheds on our way! While we do His good will, He a -- bides with us still, And with all who will trust and o -- bey.", "prose": ["When we walk with the Lord", "In the light of His word,", "What a glory He sheds on our way!", "While we do His good will,", "He abides with us still,", "And with all who will trust and obey."]}, "2": {"syllabified": "Not a shad -- ow can rise, Not a cloud in the skies, But His smile quick -- ly drives it a -- way; Not a doubt nor a fear, Not a sigh nor a tear, Can a -- bide while we trust and o -- bey.", "prose": ["Not a shadow can rise,", "Not a cloud in the skies,", "But His smile quickly drives it away;", "Not a doubt nor a fear,", "Not a sigh nor a tear,", "Can abide while we trust and obey."]}, "3": {"syllabified": "Not a bur -- den we bear, Not a sor -- row we share, But our toil He doth rich -- ly re -- pay; Not a grief nor a loss, Not a frown nor a cross, But is blest if we trust and o -- bey.", "prose": ["Not a burden we bear,", "Not a sorrow we share,", "But our toil He doth richly repay;", "Not a grief nor a loss,", "Not a frown nor a cross,", "But is blest if we trust and obey."]}, "4": {"syllabified": "But we nev -- er can prove The de -- lights of His love, Un -- til all on the al -- tar we lay, For the fa -- vor He shows, And the joy He be -- stows, Are for them who will trust and o -- bey.", "prose": ["But we never can prove", "The delights of His love,", "Until all on the altar we lay,", "For the favor He shows,", "And the joy He bestows,", "Are for them who will trust and obey."]}, "5": {"syllabified": "Then in fel -- low -- ship sweet We will sit at His feet, Or we'll walk by His side in the way; What He says we will do, Where He sends we will go, Nev -- er fear, on -- ly trust and o -- bey.", "prose": ["Then in fellowship sweet", "We will sit at His feet,", "Or we'll walk by His side in the way;", "What He says we will do,", "Where He sends we will go,", "Never fear, only trust and obey."]}}, "refrain": {"syllabified": "Trust and o -- bey, for there's no oth -- er way To be hap -- py in Je -- sus, but to trust and o -- bey.", "prose": ["Trust and obey, for there's no other way", "To be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey."]}, "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}