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Text:Ah! why should doubts and fears arise
Author:Anon.
Tune:LOUVAN
Composer:Virgil C. Taylor

663. Ah! why should doubts and fears arise

1 Ah! why should doubts and fears arise,
And sorrow fill my weeping eyes?
Too slow, alas! the mind receives
The comforts that the gospel gives.

2 O, for a strong, a lasting faith,
To rest on what the Almighty saith!
To heed the message of his Son,
And calls the joys of heaven my own.

3 Then, should the earth's old pillars shake,
And all the wheels of nature break,
My steadfast soul would fear no more
Than solid rocks when billows roar.

Text Information
First Line: Ah! why should doubts and fears arise
Author: Anon.
Publication Date: 1886
Topic: The Christian: Faith, Hope, and Charity
Notes: Public Domain.
Tune Information
Name: LOUVAN
Composer: Virgil C. Taylor
Meter: L. M.
Key: A♭ Major
Notes: Now Public Domain. Alternate tunes: #746, 514, or 428.



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