The Christian — Comfort and Encouragement

Rejoice in God alway

No. 709
Metre S. M.
Tune OGDEN.
Words Moultrie.
Music F. E. Belden.
Key E-flat major
Singing key E♭ major
Time 4/4
4 stanzas

Words

Rejoice in God alway;When earth looks heavenly bright,When joy makes glad the livelong day,And peace shuts in the night.

Rejoice when care and woeThe fainting soul oppress;When tears at wakeful midnight flow,And morn brings heaviness.

Rejoice in hope and fear;Rejoice in life and death;Rejoice when threatening storms are near,And comfort languisheth.

So, though our path is steep,And many a tempest lowers,Our Father will our footsteps keep,And his dear love be ours.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: running head «THE CHRISTIAN—COMFORT AND ENCOURAGEMENT.»; hymn number «709» (large, left), tune name «OGDEN. S. M.» centred over the music, «F. E. BELDEN.» at the right (capitals and small capitals); in the left margin, printed vertically, «by F. E. Belden.» beside system 1 and «Copyrighted 1886» beside system 2 (= «Copyrighted 1886 by F. E. Belden.»; the last figure of the year read from the native pixels, see `uncertainties.md`). Stanza 1 is set between the staves, one text line (two verse lines) per system, with «1.» before «Re-»; «Re - joice», «al - way», «heaven - ly», «live - long» are printed in syllables and joined here («livelong»: the interlinear hyphen cannot tell a compound hyphen from a syllable break; joined like the others, see `uncertainties.md`). Stanzas 2–4 are printed as text below the music in two columns, with no reference line; stanza 3 begins at the foot of the left column and ends at the top of the right column; «Moultrie.» in italics after stanza 4. The stanza numbers of the text stanzas are printed without a full stop («2 Rejoice»); they are numbered «2.» here like stanza 1. Lines 2 and 4 of each stanza are indented in the print. The printer's thin space before «;» («oppress ;», «fear ;», «death ;») is closed up here.