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Hymn

Through the Night of Doubt and Sorrow

IN BABILONE · 8.7.8.7.D · words Bernhardt S. Ingemann · music Traditional Dutch

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Through the Night of Doubt and Sorrow cross heart peo pil ward, as His ward the the somed the with from ran goes our of ple grim aid! one; shed, band, night fore, that of of there strain light 4. On 3. One 2. One 1. Through ward, the the the ers, sands ence, row broth thou pres sor On Lift O'er On own and of doubt grim pil lips God's neath God path Prom we the 'ning ing be in the the rest march all to its be we ised shade. gun: tread: Land. songs and flict, the of shame, con far its the ing ing Bear One Chas Sing tle, il ror, tion, bat per ter ta Till One Bright March the and pec ex its gloom one fight of ter nev guid the nal er ing burns the the the and ing e which the rend far faith tomb; shore, tires, light: glad ob fore come ject the ness us shall the the be Soon One One Clear ness ney, wak joic jour dark Soon On One Gleams ing, ing great of of through a re our the toil ev God through fear hope the in the ping less of for our end love and er in the gloom. more. spires. night. earn scat One clasps of might look hand t'ring Al est the the er the Then Where One Broth the ows, ther ward, er, And Reigns One Step all y ing of shad Fa for broth Bernhardt S. Ingemann, 1916 IN BABILONE 8.7.8.7.D Traditional Dutch
Through the Night of Doubt and Sorrow cross heart peo pil ward, as His ward the the somed the with from ran goes our of ple grim aid! one; shed, band, night fore, that of of there strain light 4. On 3. One 2. One 1. Through ward, the the the ers, sands ence, row broth thou pres sor On Lift O'er On own and of doubt grim pil lips God's neath God path Prom we the 'ning ing be in the the rest march all to its be we ised shade. gun: tread: Land. songs and flict, the of shame, con far its the ing ing Bear One Chas Sing tle, il ror, tion, bat per ter ta Till One Bright March the and pec ex its gloom one fight of ter nev guid the nal er ing burns the the the and ing e which the rend far faith tomb; shore, tires, light: glad ob fore come ject the ness us shall the the be Soon One One Clear ness ney, wak joic jour dark Soon On One Gleams ing, ing great of of through a re our the toil ev God through fear hope the in the ping less of for our end love and er in the gloom. more. spires. night. earn scat One clasps of might look hand t'ring Al est the the er the Then Where One Broth the ows, ther ward, er, And Reigns One Step all y ing of shad Fa for broth Bernhardt S. Ingemann, 1916 IN BABILONE 8.7.8.7.D Traditional Dutch

1.Through the night of doubt and sorrow
Onward goes the pilgrim band,
Singing songs of expectation,
Marching to the Promised Land.
Clear before us through the darkness
Gleams and burns the guiding light:
Brother clasps the hand of brother,
Stepping fearless through the night.

2.One the light of God's own presence,
O'er His ransomed people shed,
Chasing far the gloom and terror,
Bright'ning all the path we tread:
One the object of our journey,
One the faith which never tires,
One the earnest looking forward,
One the hope our God inspires.

3.One the strain that lips of thousands
Lift as from the heart of one;
One the conflict, one the peril
One the march in God begun:
One the gladness of rejoicing
On the far eternal shore,
Where the One Almighty Father
Reigns in love for evermore.

4.Onward, therefore, pilgrim brothers,
Onward, with the cross our aid!
Bear its shame, and fight its battle,
Till we rest beneath its shade.
Soon shall come the great awaking,
Soon the rending of the tomb;
Then the scatt'ring of all shadows,
And the end of toil and gloom.

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