The Christian — Faith, Hope, and Charity

Away, my unbelieving fear

No. 668
Words Charles Wesley.
3 stanzas

Words

Away, my unbelieving fear!Fear shall in me no more have place:My Saviour doth not yet appear,He hides the brightness of his face;But shall I therefore let him go,And basely to the tempter yield?No, in the strength of Jesus, no;I never will give up my shield.

Although the vine its fruit deny,Although the olive yield no oil,The withering fig-trees droop and die,The fields elude the tiller's toil,The empty stall no herd afford,And perish all the bleating race;Yet I will triumph in the Lord,The God of my salvation praise.

Barren although my soul remain,And not one bud of grace appear,No fruit of all my toil and pain,But sin and only sin is here;Although my gifts and comforts lost,My blooming hopes cut off I see,Yet will I in my Saviour trust,And glory that he died for me.

About this hymn

As printed Words only. As printed: hymn number «668» (large) at the head of the right column of p. 217, beside the music of hymn 667, with the italic reference line «518, 749,» (= sing to the tunes of hymns 518 or 749; the line ends with a comma in the print). Three stanzas of eight lines, numbered «1»–«3» without a full stop (written «1.»–«3.» here); lines 2, 4, 6 and 8 of each stanza are indented in the print (kept here). The first word «AWAY» is set in capitals and small capitals (written «Away» here). «Charles Wesley.» in italics, right-aligned, after stanza 3. No meter is printed (the text is L. M. D., like the tunes referred to). The print's thin space before «!», «:», «;» and «?» is closed up; apostrophes are written straight. Spelling («Saviour», «fig-trees»), punctuation and capitals are the print's.