1 Though in a foreign land,
We are not far from home;
And nearer to our rest above
We ev'ry moment come.
2 Secure within the vail,
Christ is our anchor strong;
While pow'r supreme, and love divine
Still guide us safe along.
3 And should the surges rise--
Should sore afflictions come,
Blest is the sorrow, kind the storm,
That drives us nearer home.
4 God's grace will to the end
Clearer and brighter shine;
Nor present things, nor things to come,
Can change His love divine.
5 Soon shall our pains and fears
Forever pass away;
For we shall soon the Saviour see
In everlasting day.
Source: A Few Hymns and Some Spiritual Songs. Selected 1856, for the Little Flock. Revised, 1881 #177
Toplady, Augustus Montague, the author of "Rock of Ages," was born at Farnham, Surrey, November 4, 1740. His father was an officer in the British army. His mother was a woman of remarkable piety. He prepared for the university at Westminster School, and subsequently was graduated at Trinity College, Dublin. While on a visit in Ireland in his sixteenth year he was awakened and converted at a service held in a barn in Codymain. The text was Ephesians ii. 13: "But now, in Christ Jesus, ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ." The preacher was an illiterate but warm-hearted layman named Morris. Concerning this experience Toplady wrote: "Strange that I, who had so long sat under the means of grace in England, should b… Go to person page >
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