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Contains JSON data on the Trinity Hymnal
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{
"title": "If thou but suffer God to guide thee",
"author": "",
"tune": "Neumark",
"number": "567",
"lyrics": "If thou but suffer God to guide thee,\nAnd hope in him through all thy ways,\nHe'll give thee strength, whatever betide thee,\nAnd bear thee through the evil days:\nWho trusts in God's unchanging love\nBuilds on the rock that naught can move.\n\nWhat can these anxious cares avail thee,\nThese never-ceasing moans and sighs?\nWhat can it help, if thou bewail thee\nO'er each dark moment as it flies?\nOur cross and trials do but press\nThe heavier for our bitterness.\n\nOnly be still, and wait his leisure\nIn cheerful hope, with heart content\nTo take whate'er thy Father's pleasure\nAnd all deserving love hath sent;\nNor doubt our inmost wants are known\nTo him who chose us for his own.\n\nAll are alike before the highest;\n'Tis easy to our God, we know,\nTo raise thee up though low thou liest,\nTo make the rich man poor and low;\nTrue wonders still by him are wrought\nWho setteth up and brings to naught.\n\nSing, pray, and keep his ways unswerving,\nSo do thine own part faithfully,\nAnd trust his word, though undeserving,\nThou yet shalt find it true for thee;\nGod never yet forsook at need\nThe soul that trusted him indeed.",
"first_line": "If thou but suffer God to guide thee,"
}