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Text:Hold to God's Unchanging Hand
Author:Jennie Wilson
Tune:UNCHANGING HANDS
Arranger:Stephen Key
Composer:Franklin L. Eiland, 1860-1909

421. Hold to God's Unchanging Hand

1 Time is filled with swift transition.
Naught of earth unmoved can stand.
Build your hopes on things eternal.
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.

Refrain:
Hold to His hand, God’s unchanging hand.
Hold to His hand, God’s unchanging hand.
Build your hopes on things eternal.
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.

2 Trust in Him who will not leave you.
Whatsoever years may bring.
If by earthly friends forsaken,
Still more closely to Him cling. [Refrain]

3 Covet not this world’s vain riches
That so rapidly decay.
Seek to gain the heav’nly treasures.
They will never pass away. [Refrain]

4 When your journey is completed,
If to God you have been true,
Fair and bright the home in Glory
Your enraptured soul will view. [Refrain]

Text Information
First Line: Time is filled with swift transition
Title: Hold to God's Unchanging Hand
Author: Jennie Wilson
Refrain First Line: Hold to His hand,God's unchanging hand
Meter: 8 7 8 7 with refrain
Language: English
Publication Date: 2011
Scripture:
Topic: Everlasting Life; Faith; Faithfulness of the Believer (4 more...)
Tune Information
Name: UNCHANGING HANDS
Composer: Franklin L. Eiland, 1860-1909
Arranger: Stephen Key
Meter: 8 7 8 7 with refrain
Key: G Major or modal
Copyright: Arr. © 2000, GIA Publications, Inc.



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