God's Ways Are Ever Right

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1 God's ways are ever right,
Tho' to us they appear
To live through deepest vales of night
And hedged with many a fear.

2 But faith alone can tread
His paths of righteousness;
And only those to men's ways dead,
Can safely walk in His.

3 Yet praised be the Lord,
We wish no other path
Than that marked out by God's own word,
And trod alone by faith.

Source: His Fullness Songs #221

Author: Charles Price Jones

Charles Price Jones born December 9, 1865, near Rome, Georgia. He grew up in Kingston, Georgia, and attended the Baptist church. He was converted in 1884 while living in Cat Island, Arkansas. In 1885 he was called to the ministry and began preaching. In 1888 he attended Arkansas Baptist College and taught school in Grant County, Arkansas. He preached and pastored several Baptist churches. After asking God for a deeper experience of grace and fasting and praying for three days, Jones experienced a closeness with God, and in 1895, along with other Baptist holiness adherents, who taught that a second work of grace can cleanse the Christian of original sin. They started a holiness movement in the Baptist church, and he began teaching holiness i… Go to person page >

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First Line: God's ways are ever right
Title: God's Ways Are Ever Right
Author: Charles Price Jones
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

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