Lutheran Hymnody
The Hymns
CONSECRATION
396
Oh, for a Faith That Will Not Shrink
Luke 17: 5
C. M.
St. Peter
William H. Bathhurst, 1831, alt.
Alexander R. Reinagle, 1836
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brink
pain
or
not
no
5
A faith that keeps the narrow way
Till life’s last spark is fled
And with a pure and heav’nly ray
Lights up the dying bed.
6
Lord give us such a faith as this;
And then, whate’er may come,
We’ll taste e’en now the hallowed bliss
Of an eternal home.
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