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[Whether with the few or many]

Appears in 5 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: H. N. Lincoln Incipit: 12333 34321 55555 Used With Text: Trust in God

Author: W. P. Balfern Appears in 6 hymnals First Line: Whether with the few or many Refrain First Line: Trust in God, and do your best Lyrics: 1 Whether with the few or many Ever working for the Lord, Do your best and never falter, Ever leaning on His word, Are you in the midst of conflict, Full of trouble and unrest? Sorrow will not last forever,— Trust in God and do your best. Refrain: Trust in God, and do your best, Trust in God, and do your best, Do your best, and never falter, Ever leaning on His word, Trust in God, and do your best. 2 Do your best in joy or sorrow, Do your best by night or day, Do your best in strength or weakness, Heed not what the world may say; See the Master ever working Ever at His best was He; Thor’ His cries and tears and bleeding,— To the last He toiled for thee. [Refrain] 3 Sun and stars and trees and flowers, Flowing streams and boundless sea, Ever work to cheer and help us,— Do their best, their service free; Do your best thro’ Time’s thick darkness, And the best your eyes shall see; When the Lord and prince of workers Comes again, He’ll welcome thee. [Refrain] Used With Tune: [Whether with the few or many]

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Trust in God

Author: W. P. Balfern Hymnal: Sunshine #72 (1895) First Line: Whether with the few or many Refrain First Line: Trust in God, and do your best Lyrics: 1 Whether with the few or many Ever working for the Lord, Do your best and never falter, Ever leaning on His word, Are you in the midst of conflict, Full of trouble and unrest? Sorrow will not last forever,— Trust in God and do your best. Refrain: Trust in God, and do your best, Trust in God, and do your best, Do your best, and never falter, Ever leaning on His word, Trust in God, and do your best. 2 Do your best in joy or sorrow, Do your best by night or day, Do your best in strength or weakness, Heed not what the world may say; See the Master ever working Ever at His best was He; Thor’ His cries and tears and bleeding,— To the last He toiled for thee. [Refrain] 3 Sun and stars and trees and flowers, Flowing streams and boundless sea, Ever work to cheer and help us,— Do their best, their service free; Do your best thro’ Time’s thick darkness, And the best your eyes shall see; When the Lord and prince of workers Comes again, He’ll welcome thee. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [Whether with the few or many]

Trust in God

Author: W. P. Balfern Hymnal: Bright Light #34 (1893) First Line: Whether with the few or many Refrain First Line: Trust in God and do your best Languages: English Tune Title: [Whether with the few or many]

Trust in God

Author: W. P. Balfern Hymnal: Sixty Scripture Songs #62 (1890) First Line: Whether with the few or many Refrain First Line: Trust in God, and do your best Languages: English Tune Title: [Whether with the few or many]

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H. N. Lincoln

1859 - 1948 Composer of "[Whether with the few or many]" in Salvation Songs Horace Neely Lincoln, 1859-1948. Horace was the son of James Lincoln and Emaline King, and husband of Etta Lee Thurmand (married 1887). He moved with his family to Texas when he was seven years old. At age 10, he began attending a singing school conducted by James M. Jolley of Mississippi. In 1880, he taught his first singing class in his old neighborhood school house. Later that year, he attended his first normal music school, taught at Mountain Home (now Holland), Texas. Lincoln had other musical training under L. B. Shook (a former student of Philip Bliss) and John McPherson of Illinois. In 1898, he graduated from the Chicago National College of Music, and in 1906 took a post-graduate course under Horatio Palmer. Lincoln eventually became president of the Songland Music Company, and the World’s Normal Musical College. © The Cyber Hymnal™ (hymntime/tch)

W. P. Balfern

1818 - 1887 Author of "Trust in God" in Salvation Songs Balfern, William Poole, born in 1818, at Hammersmith; entered the Baptist Ministry in 1848; and has laboured chiefly in the suburbs of London, and in Brighton. Mr. Balfern is the author of Glimpses of Jesus and other prose works of similar character, has been a frequent contributor to Religious Periodicals, and has published the following vols. of poetry:— (1) The Beauty of the Great King, and other Poems, 1871, Lond., Passmore and Alabaster. (2) Lyrics for the Heart, 1876. (Same publishers) (3) Hymns of the Passion, 1882, Lond., Nelson and Sons. (4) Pilgrim Chimes for the Weeks of the Year, 1881, is a selection from Mr. Balfern's poems made and published by Rev. Chas. Bullock. Mr. Balfern's hymns have appeared in the Baptist Hymnal ; Psalms & Hymns for the Young; the Methodist Sunday School Hymn Book; Songs of Gladness (S. S. Union); Book of Hymns for Sunday School, Lond., Weeks & Co.; Treasury of Sacred Song, Kirkwall, W. Peace; and in a few collections of the Church of England. They include:— 1. Come unto Me, the Saviour speaks [said]. Invitation. 2. Hark, dear children, hear the angels. Sunday. 3. 0 gentle Teacher, ever near. Divine Teacher. 4. 0 Lamb of God, most lowly [holy]. Holiness of Jesus. 5. 0 morning star, whose distant ray. Divine Guidance. 6. 0 Thou Who art enthroned on high. Praise. 7. Shepherd of those sunlit mountains. The Good Shepherd. All these hymns were contributed to the Sunday School Union Songs of Gladness, 1871, and from thence have passed into other collections. 8. Say not, 0 wounded heart. Love of Jesus. From his work, The Beauty of the Great King, 1871, into the Baptist Hymnal, 1879. Whilst these hymns do not take a high rank as poetry, they are characterised by simplicity of expression, and by devout and earnest, often tender, Christian feeling. Balfern died July 3, 1887. [Rev. W. R. Stevenson, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)