Secure in His Keeping

Top Media Text Author Text Info Tune Timeline Page Scans Instances

Secure in his keeping, who guideth my way

Author: Eliza E. Hewitt
Tune: [Secure in his keeping, who guideth my way]
Published in 3 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 Secure in his keeping, who guideth my way,
Who turneth the shadows of night into day;
The word that he utters, no ill can withstand,
He holdeth the waters within his own hand.

Refrain:
Secure, secure,
Secure while ages endure.
My title in love is written above,
For he is almighty to save;
Secure, secure,
Secure while ages endure.
My title in love is written above,
For he is almighty to save.

2 Secure in his keeping, who died for my sin,
Who suffered on Calv’ry, a sinner to win;
Who rising in triumph o’er sin and the grave,
For me intercedeth, almighty to save. [Refrain]

3 Secure in his keeping, tho' foes may surround,
The grace of my Saviour much more will abound;
Then forth to his service, I’ll cheerfully go,
The work he will prosper, the path he will show. [Refrain]

4 Secure, when the shadows of evening shall fall,
Still trusting in Jesus, I’ll answer his call;
I’ll sing ‘mid the angels, in yonder bright sphere,
“He saved me, he kept me, that’s why I am here.” [Refrain]

Source: Jubilate : A Modern Sunday-School Hymnal #162

All representative texts • Compare texts ^ top

Author: Eliza 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 >

^ top

Text Information

Text Information

First Line:	Secure in his keeping, who guideth my way
Title:	Secure in His Keeping
Author:	Eliza E. Hewitt
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Secure, secure, for His promise is sure
Publication Date:	1913
Copyright:	Public Domain