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Welcome Cross
Olney Hymns, William Cowper, from Cowper's Poems, Sheldon & Company, New York
Welcome Cross
Olney Hymns, William Cowper, from Cowper's Poems, Sheldon & Company, New York
"Tis my happiness below God in Israel sows the seeds Did I meet no trials here,Not to live without the cross,
But the Saviour's power to know,
Sanctifying every loss:
Trials must and will befall;
But with humble faith to see
Love inscribed upon them all,
This is happiness to me.
Of affliction, pain, and toil;
These spring up and choke the weeds
Which would else o'erspread the soil:
Trials make the promise sweet,
Trials give new life to prayer;
Trials bring me to His feet,
Lay me low, and keep me there.
No chastisement by the way,
Might I not with reason fear
I should prove a castaway?
Bastards may escape the rod,
Sunk in earthly vain delight;
But the true-born child of God
