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Play “We Walk by Faith, Not by Sight”
Free same-meter accompaniment for We Walk by Faith, Not by Sight (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) in four-part harmony, 5 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'Tis by the faith of joys to come
- We walk through deserts dark as night;
- Till we arrive at heaven our home,
- Faith is our guide, and faith our light.
- 2The want of sight she well supplies;
- She makes the pearly gates appear;
- Far into distant worlds she pries,
- And brings eternal glories near.
- 3Cheerful we tread the desert through,
- While faith inspires a heavenly ray,
- Though lions roar, and tempests blow,
- And rocks and dangers fill the way.
- 4So Abra'm, by divine command,
- Left his own house to walk with God;
- His faith beheld the promised land,
- And cheered him on his toilsome road.
- 5Amen.
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 We Walk by Faith, Not by Sight page.
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