Christ My Song - 2383

Have faith in truth
(Horatius Bonar/Johannes Thomas Rüegg)

Have Faith in Truth.

1. Have faith in truth,
and in the True One trust;
though bright with fancy's brightest hues,
abhor the lie thou must. PDF - Midi

2. Make sure of truth,
and truth will make thee sure;
it will not shift, nor fade, nor die,
but like the heavens endure.

3. God's thoughts, not man's,
be these thy heritage;
they, like himself, are ever young,
untouched by time or age.

4. God's words, not man's,
be these thy gems and gold;
be these thy never-setting stars,
still radiant as of old.

5. With God alone
is truth, and joy, and light.
Walk thou with him in peace and love;
hold fast the good and right.

6. Hold fast the true,
for truth can never change;
it grows not old, 'tis ever one,
however vast its range.

7. Great truths are great,
not once, but evermore;
theirs is an everlasting youth,
a spring-bloom never o'er.

8. The stars that shine
tonight in these calm skies,
are the same stars that shone of old
in primal Paradise.

9. The sun that once
at a man's voice stood still,
is the same sun that nightly sets
behind yon western hill.

10. Man and his earth
are varying day by day;
truth cannot change, nor ever grow
feeble and old and grey.

Horatius Bonar, Hymns of Faith and Hope II, 1872, 69-71.