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Free same-meter accompaniment for In Hope, Believing Against Hope (Charles Wesley): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) in four-part harmony, 3 verses, with the words on screen. Choose the key and speed, add an introduction, project the words on a TV, or practice your own choir part. Made for churches and home groups without a musician.

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  1. 1Away, my unbelieving fear!
  2. Fear shall in me no more have place:
  3. My Saviour doth not yet appear,
  4. He hides the brightness of his face;
  5. But shall I therefore let him go,
  6. And basely to the tempter yield?
  7. No, in the strength of Jesus, no;
  8. I never will give up my shield.
  9. 2Although the vine its fruit deny,
  10. Although the olive yield no oil,
  11. The withering fig-trees droop and die,
  12. The fields elude the tiller's toil,
  13. The empty stall no herd afford,
  14. And perish all the bleating race;
  15. Yet I will triumph in the Lord,
  16. The God of my salvation praise.
  17. 3Barren although my soul remain,
  18. And not one bud of grace appear,
  19. No fruit of all my toil and pain,
  20. But sin and only sin is here;
  21. Although my gifts and comforts lost,
  22. My blooming hopes cut off I see,
  23. Yet will I in my Saviour trust,
  24. And glory that he died for me.

About this music

OLD 100TH — Louis Bourgeois. Setting: Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalter, 1561.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from ccel from Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalter 1561. Words: "Hymnal and Canticles of the Protestant Episcopal Church", 1875, hymn 405.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the In Hope, Believing Against Hope page.

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