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