O willingly endure

Author: Johann Michael Nathaniel Feneberg
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1 O, willingly endure! For God’s Word doth assure That thou shouldst suffer still, According to His will. 2 To suffer as God wills Our life’s design fulfills; It leads to God’s domain, Christ’s likeness to attain. 3 To suffer makes us pure, Each trial we endure Does good to us impart, Makes us childlike at heart. 4 To be childlike and pure, O, that alone is sure; To please your Lord and God, O, may this be your lot! 5 Then as a child draw nigh; He hears your every sigh; You shall not leave His face Without His blessed grace.

Source: Zion's Harp: a collection of hymns and songs for the Apostolic Christian Church of America #156

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Author: Johann Michael Nathaniel Feneberg

Feneberg, Johann Michael, was born Feb. 9, 1751, at Oberdorf, Allgäu, Bavaria. He was for some time tutor in St. Paul’s College, at Regensburg, and in 1785 was appointed professor in the Gymnasium at Dillingen. In 1793 he became parish priest of Seeg, in Allgäu, where he had as assistants Christoph Schmid, Martin Boos and Johannes Gossner; but in 1805, on account of his Evangelical teaching, was removed to Vohringen, near Ulm, where he died Oct. 12, 1812. The only hymn by him translation into English is:— Liebe und ein Kreuz dazu. [Cross and Consolation.) Of the origin of this beautiful hymn Koch, vi. 554, relates that it was "written at Seeg in 1794, as he, in the experience of the blessings of the cross after the amputation of… Go to person page >

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First Line:	O willingly endure
Author:	Johann Michael Nathaniel Feneberg
Publication Date:	2003
Copyright:	This text may still be under copyright because it was published in 2003.