Hymn
Through the Night of Doubt and Sorrow
Thro the night of doubt and sorrow
Onward goes the pilgrim band,
Singing songs of expectation,
Marching to the promised land:
Clear before us through the darkness
Gleams and burns the guiding light;
Brother clasps the hand of brother,
Stepping fearless through the night.
One the light of God's own presence
O'er His ransomed people shed,
Chasing far the gloom and terror,
Brightening all the path we tread;
One the object of our journey,
One the faith which never tires,
One the earnest looking forward,
One the hope our God inspires;
One the strain that lips of thousands
Lift as from the heart of one,
One the conflict, one the peril,
One the march in God begun;
One the gladness of rejoicing
On the far eternal shore,
Where the One Almighty Father
Reigns in love for evermore.
Onward, there, pilgrim brothers,
Onward, with the cross our aid;
Bear its shame, and fight its battle,
Till we rest beneath its shade:
Soon shall come the great awaking,
Soon the rending of the tomb;
Then the scattering of all shadows,
And the end of toil and gloom.
Through the Night of Doubt and Sorrow — Text from The Church Hymnal, 1920. Public domain. https://yeshuanow.com/hymns/through-the-night-of-doubt-and-sorrow
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Questions about this hymn
Who wrote Through the Night of Doubt and Sorrow?
The words of Through the Night of Doubt and Sorrow are credited to S. Baring-Gould and Bernhard Severin Ingemann; the version here was published in 1920. The library also holds Onward, Christian Soldiers, another hymn by S. Baring-Gould.
Is Through the Night of Doubt and Sorrow public domain?
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What is the metre of Through the Night of Doubt and Sorrow?
Through the Night of Doubt and Sorrow is in 8.7.8.7 D. Hymns in the same metre can usually be sung to the same tunes — for example, Here Am I, Send Me, Savior, sprinkle many nations and Call Jehovah Thy Salvation.