Though we walk through this wilderness

Author: William Gadsby
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 Though we walk through this wilderness
God’s promise is our stay;
His goodness he will make to pass
Before us in the way.

2 Goodness, immortal and divine,
The bliss of endless day,
The Lord our God will make to pass
Before us in the way.

3 The boundless treasures of his grace,
He surely will display,
And all his goodness make to pass
Before us in the way.

4 [Though hosts of enemies rise up,
To fill us with dismay,
The Lord will make his goodness pass
Before us in the way.

5 To keep our eyes on Jesus fixed,
And there our hope to stay,
The Lord will make his goodness pass
Before us in the way.]

6 To make his saints his glory view,
And sing their cares away,
The Lord will make his goodness pass
Before them in the way.

Source: A Selection of Hymns for Public Worship. In four parts (10th ed.) (Gadsby's Hymns) #554

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Author: William Gadsby

Gadsby, William , was born in 1773 at Attleborough, in Warwickshire. In 1793 he joined the Baptist church at Coventry, and in 1798 began to preach. In 1800 a chapel was built for him at Desford, in Leicestershire, and two years later another in the town of Hinckley. In 1805 he removed to Manchester, becoming minister of a chapel in Rochdale Boad, where he continued until his death, in January, 1844. Gadsby was for many years exceedingly popular as a preacher of the High Calvinist faith, and visited in that capacity most parts of England. He published The Nazarene's Songs, being a composition of Original Hymns, Manchester, 1814; and Hymns on the Death of the Princess Charlotte, Manchester, 1817. In 1814 he also published A Selection of Hymn… Go to person page >

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