283. What Cheering Words Are These

S.M.
by Kent
1
What cheering words are these!
 
Their sweetness who can tell?
 
In time and to eternal days — 
 
"’Tis with believers well!"
2
In every state secure,
 
Watched by the Savior’s eye,
 
’Tis well with them should life endure,
 
And well if called to die.
3
Well in affliction’s ways,
 
Or on the mount with God;
 
Well when they joy, and sing, and praise,
 
Or buffet with the flood.
4
’Tis well when joys arise,
 
’Tis well when sorrows flow,
 
Or darkness seems to veil the skies,
 
And strong temptations grow.
5
’Tis well when on the mount
 
They feast and joy in love,
 
And ’tis as well, in God’s account,
 
When they the furnace prove.
6
But above all, how well
 
When Jesus speaks the word,
 
And, at the trumpet’s sounding swell,
 
They rise to meet their God!
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