Savior! lead us by Thy Power

1 Saviour, lead us by Thy power
Safe into the promised rest;
Choose the path,--the way whatever
Seems to Thee, O Lord, the best:
Be our Guide in ev'ry peril,
Watch and keep us night and day,
Else our foolish hearts will wander
From the strait and narrow way.

2 Since in Thee is our redemption,
And salvation full and free,
Nothing need our souls dishearten
But forgetfulness of Thee.
Naught can stay our steady progress,
More than conquerors we shall be,
If our eye, whate'er the danger,
Looks to Thee, and none but Thee.

3 In Thy presence we are happy;
In Thy presence we're secure;
In Thy presence all afflictions
We can easily endure;
In Thy presence we can conquer,
We can suffer, we can die;
Wand'ring from Thee, we are feeble:
Let Thy love, Lord, keep us nigh.

Source: A Few Hymns and Some Spiritual Songs. Selected 1856, for the Little Flock. Revised, 1881 #42A