Why are ye so fearful? How is it that ye have no faith?
Mark 4:40
Words: Ralph Atkinson, 1908. Appeared in The Ideal Song and Hymn Book, edited by Daniel Towner (New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1909), number 50.
Music: Daniel B. Towner (🔊 pdf nwc).
If you know where to get a good photo of Atkinson (head & shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels),
The night is dark, the waves run high,
Nor moon or stars in yonder sky;
What cheer above the stormy swell?
The lookout’s answer, All is well.
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All is well!
All is well!
What cheer to know that all is well!
All is well!
All is well!
The lookout answers All is well!
I sleep upon the billow’s crest,
Like John upon the Master’s breast;
For He my every fear doth quell
With His good message, All is well.
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By grief and sin thy soul oppressed,
And all around thee in unrest,
How blest to hear the lookout’s bell,
And cheer our hearts with All is well.
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No sleep e’er dims our pilot’s eyes,
He’s e’er attentive to our cries;
He’ll save us from a sinner’s hell,
And cheer our hearts with All is well.
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Rest peacefully upon the deep,
For Jesus evermore will keep;
The word pass on, to others tell,
The lookout’s answer, All is well.
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