Increase Our Faith

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Increase our faith; through good and ill

Author: E. E. Hewitt
Tune: [Increase our faith; through good and ill]
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 Increase our faith; thro’ good and ill,
Help us, O Lord, to trust thee still,
And, leaning hard upon thy breast,
Find, come what will, that we are blest.
“Our daily bread,” our strength prepare
The given cross to meekly bear;
And when we toil, the grace impart
To do thy will with glad and willing heart.

Refrain:
Increase our faith, still more and more,
Until we come to Glory’s shore;
Increase our faith, until we sing
With all thy saints, to thee, our blessed King.

2 Increase our faith; tho’ storms may blow,
Within our souls may richly grow
The fruits of hope, and faith and love
That please thine eye,O Lord above.
Let nothing shake this happy trust
In thee so good, so wise and just;
When trials sore, perplexed, we see,
O make us truly stay our minds on thee. [Refrain]

3 Increase our faith, O Friend divine,
Help us to see the stars that shine
When earthly beams shall fade away,
And evening fall on joy’s bright day.
Help us to look beyond the night
And catch the dawn of morning light,
Beyond the scenes of fleeting time,
To that fair land of peace and bliss sublime. [Refrain]

Source: The Service of Praise #138

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Author: E. E. Hewitt

Pseudonym: Lidie H. Edmunds. Eliza Edmunds Hewitt was born in Philadelphia 28 June 1851. She was educated in the public schools and after graduation from high school became a teacher. However, she developed a spinal malady which cut short her career and made her a shut-in for many years. During her convalescence, she studied English literature. She felt a need to be useful to her church and began writing poems for the primary department. she went on to teach Sunday school, take an active part in the Philadelphia Elementary Union and become Superintendent of the primary department of Calvin Presbyterian Church. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Increase our faith; through good and ill
Title:	Increase Our Faith
Author:	E. E. Hewitt
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Increase our faith, still more and more
Publication Date:	1900
Copyright:	This text is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before 1929.