Breast The Wave, Christian

Words:
Joseph Stammers
Music:
William C. Filby

Sheet music

  1. 1Breast the wave, Christian,When it is strongest;Watch for day, Christian,When the night’s longest;Onward and onward stillBe thine endeavor;The rest that remainethWill be forever.
  2. 2Fight the fight, Christian,Jesus is o’er thee;Run the race, Christian,Heav’n is before thee;He Who hath promisedFaltereth never;The love of eternityFlows on forever.
  3. 3Lift thine eye, Christian, just as it closeth;Raise thy heart, Christian,Ere it reposeth;Thee from the love of ChristNothing shall sever;And when thy work is done,Praise Him forever.Amen.

In the hymnals

  • Written in 1830, the words are in 160 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →

Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music and words are from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.

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