O For A Faith
- Words:
- W. H. Bathurst
- Music:
- L. O. Sanderson
Sheet music
- 1O, for a faith that will not shrink,Tho’ pressed by ev‘ry foe;That will not tremble on the brinkOf any earthly woe.That will not murmur or complainBeneath the chast’ning rod,But, in the hour of grief or pain,Will lean upon its God.
- 2Lord, give us such a faith as this;And, then, whate’er may come,I’ll taste, e’en here, the hallowed blissOf an eternal home.
In the hymnals
- Written in 1831, the words are in 757 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.