Ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.
Jeremiah 6:16
Words: Vida E. Smith, 1903. This song was inspired by a sermon given at the Old Brick Church in Lamoni, Iowa.
Music: Audentia Anderson (🔊 pdf nwc).
If you know where to get a good photo of Smith (head & shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels),
There’s an old, old, path
Where the sun shines thro’
Life’s dark storm clouds
From its home of blue.
Refrain
In this old, old path
Made strangely sweet
By the touch divine
Of His blessèd feet.
Find the old, old, path
’Twill be ever new,
For the Savior walks
All the way with you.
Refrain
In the old, old path
Are my friends most dear,
And I walk with them,
With the angels near.
Refrain
’Tis an old, old path
Shadowed vales between,
Yet I fearless walk
With the Nazarene.
Refrain