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Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 2 hymnals Tune Sources: Harmonia Sacra, 12th edition, 1867, by Joseph Funk Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 51565 31511 77221 Used With Text: When Thickly Beat the Storms of Life
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When Thickly Beat the Storms of Life

Author: Gurdon Robins Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 13 hymnals Lyrics: 1. When thickly beat the storms of life, And heavy is the chastening rod, The soul, beyond the waves of strife, Views the eternal Rock—her God. 2. What hope dispels the spirit’s gloom, When sinking ’neath affliction’s shock? Faith, through the vista of the tomb, Points to the everlasting Rock. 3. Is there a man who cannot see That joy and grief are from above? O let him humbly bend the knee, And own his Father’s chastening love. 4. Hope, grace, and truth, with gentle hand, Shall lead a bleeding Savior’s flock, And show them, in the promised land, The shelter of th’eternal Rock. Used With Tune: ZELEK Text Sources: Psalmist, 1843
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Hymnal: The New Harmonia Sacra #77a (1915) Languages: English Tune Title: ZELEK
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When Thickly Beat the Storms of Life

Author: Gurdon Robins Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #7686 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Lyrics: 1. When thickly beat the storms of life, And heavy is the chastening rod, The soul, beyond the waves of strife, Views the eternal Rock—her God. 2. What hope dispels the spirit’s gloom, When sinking ’neath affliction’s shock? Faith, through the vista of the tomb, Points to the everlasting Rock. 3. Is there a man who cannot see That joy and grief are from above? O let him humbly bend the knee, And own his Father’s chastening love. 4. Hope, grace, and truth, with gentle hand, Shall lead a bleeding Savior’s flock, And show them, in the promised land, The shelter of th’eternal Rock. Languages: English Tune Title: ZELEK
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Gurdon Robins

1813 - 1883 Author of "When Thickly Beat the Storms of Life" in The Cyber Hymnal Robins, Gurdon, an American bookseller, was born at Hartford, Connecticut, Nov. 7, 1813. Two of his hymns appeared anonymously in The Psalmist (Boston, 1843): (1) "There is a land mine eye hath seen" (Heaven); (2) "When thickly beat the storms of life" (God a Rock). --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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