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[If clouds blot out the sunshine]

Appears in 5 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Jno. R. Bryant Incipit: 55334 51117 16555 Used With Text: Do Your Best

Do the Best You Can

Author: E. E. Rexford Appears in 5 hymnals First Line: If clouds blot out the sunshine Refrain First Line: Then do your best Used With Tune: [If clouds blot out the sunshine]

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Author: E. E. Rexford Hymnal: Songs of Help #157 (1917) First Line: If clouds blot out the sunshine Refrain First Line: Then do the best you can Lyrics: 1 If clouds blot out the sunshine Along the path you tread, Don’t grieve in hopeless fashion, And sigh for brightness fled; Beyond the clouds the sunlight Shines in God’s changeless plan, Trust that the way will brighten, And do the best you can. Refrain: Then do your best, Yes, do the best you can; Then do your best, Yes, do the best you can; Let not your courage falter, Keep faith in God and man, And all along life’s pathway Do just the best you can. 2 Away with vain repining! Sing songs of hope and cheer, Till many a weary comrade, Grows strong of heart to hear; He who sings over trouble, With faith in God above, Sees thro’ earth’s clouds the sunshine Of God’s eternal love. [Refrain] 3 So in the time of trouble Let not your courage fail, The clouds must sometime vanish, The sun at last prevail; Trust we th’eternal goodness, The all-wise Father’s plan, And, brave with hope and courage, Do just the best you can. [Refrain] Tune Title: [If clouds blot out the sunshine]

Do the Best You Can

Author: E. E. Rexford Hymnal: Our Hymns #38 (1903) First Line: If clouds blot out the sunshine Refrain First Line: Then do your best Languages: English Tune Title: [If clouds blot out the sunshine]

Do Your Best

Author: E. E. Rexford Hymnal: The New Living Hymns (Living Hymns No. 2) #144 (1902) First Line: If clouds blot out the sunshine Refrain First Line: Then do the best you can Languages: English Tune Title: [If clouds blot out the sunshine]

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Eben E. Rexford

1848 - 1916 Person Name: E. E. Rexford Author of "Do Your Best" in Songs of Help Rexford, Eben Eugene.M (Johnsburg, New York, July 16, 1848--October 16, 1916, Shiocton, Wisconsin). Horticulturalist and editor of a Wisconsin farm journal. Many of his verses were used to fill empty corners of the journal. He also wrote many books on gardening. Lawrence University (Appleton, Wisc.), Litt.D. Twenty-five years, organist at First Congregational Church, Shiocton. See: Smith, Mary L.P. (1930). Eben E. Rexford; a biographical sketch. Menasha, Wis., George Banta Pub. Co. --Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives and Gabriel, Charles H. (1916). Singers and Their Songs. Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company. =============== Rexford, Eben Eugene , an American writer, born July 16, 1848, is the author of Nos. 199, 246, 263, 353, in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos), 1878, No. 5, and 456 in the Methodist Sunday School Hymnbook, 1879. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ================ Rexford, E. E. , p. 1587, ii. Additional hymns by this author in common use include:— 1. He saw the wheat fields waiting. Harvest of the World. 2. O where are the reapers. Missions. 3. Rouse up to work that waits for us. Duty. 4. We are sailing o'er an ocean. Life's Vicissitudes. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907) ================