The bending sky

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When days are dark and the waves

Author: Alfred Barratt
Tune: [When days are dark and the waves roll high]
Published in 2 hymnals

Representative Text

1 When days are dark and the waves roll high,
When our souls are filled with fear;
Then God comes down on the bending sky,
Bringing comfort, hope and cheer.

Refrain:
His love and grace I can ne'er deny,
There's a robe and crown to win;
Since God came down on the bending sky,
To redeem my soul from sin.

2 When sorrows come He doth hear my cry
If I look to Him in prayer,
Then god comes down on the bending sky,
Ev'ry sorrow He doth share. [Refrain]

3 In danger's hour He is ever nigh
To deliver and defend,
For God comes down on the bending sky,
To uphold me to the end. [Refrain]

4 Now all my hpoes on the Lord rely
Till this life on earth is past,
Till God comes down onthe bending sky,
To receive my soul at last. [Refrain]

Source: Melodies of Love #123

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Author: Alfred Barratt

Barratt, Alfred. (New Springs, Wigan, Lancashire, England, October 25, 1879--December, 1968). Coming to the United States as a young man, he studied at Gordon College, Massachusetts, and Newton Theological Seminary, Mass. He was ordained in December, 1913, by the Baptists in Connecticut, then by the Wheeling WV Presbytery, Presbyterian Church in the USA, in 1924. He was pastor of Dallas, West Virginia, then of a series of churches in the Presbytery of Clarion, Pennsylvania. In 1937 he was awarded the Doctor of Literature degree by Bob Jones College. On November 26, 1962, he wrote the undersigned: "For 39 long years I have labored hard and steady writing sermons, children's story sermons, and hymns. Up to the present day I have written 4,… Go to person page >

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