Church Chorals and Choir Studies #186
Display Title: Why that look of sadness First Line: Why that look of sadness Tune Title: [Why that look of sadness] Date: 1850
Church Chorals and Choir Studies #186
1 Why that look of sadness?
Why that downcast eye?
Can no thought of gladness
Lift thy soul on high?
2 O thou heir of heaven,
Think of Jesus' love,
While to thee is given
All his grace to prove.
3 Is thy burdened spirit
Agonized for sin?
Think of Jesus' merit;
He can make thee clean;
4 Think of Calvary's mountain,
Where his blood was spilt;
In that precious fountain
Wash away thy guilt.
5 Set the prize before thee;
Gird thy armor on:
Heir of grace and glory,
Struggle for thy crown.
Source: The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book: for use in divine worship #711
Hastings, Thomas, MUS. DOC., son of Dr. Seth Hastings, was born at Washington, Lichfield County, Connecticut, October 15, 1784. In 1786, his father moved to Clinton, Oneida Co., N. Y. There, amid rough frontier life, his opportunities for education were small; but at an early age he developed a taste for music, and began teaching it in 1806. Seeking a wider field, he went, in 1817, to Troy, then to Albany, and in 1823 to Utica, where he conducted a religious journal, in which he advocated his special views on church music. In 1832 he was called to New York to assume the charge of several Church Choirs, and there his last forty years were spent in great and increasing usefulness and repute. He died at New York, May 15, 1872. His aim was the… Go to person page >| First Line: | Why that look of sadness |
| Title: | Trust in the Lord |
| Author: | Thomas Hastings |
| Language: | English |
| Refrain First Line: | Trust ye in the Lord |
| Copyright: | Public Domain |
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