When hope is bright and all is fair,
No cloud within surrounding air;
When gentle gales propitious blow
Rich blessings to me as I go,
My surest stay is God.
When all within is calm and still
And I submissive to His will,
Finding in faith a "perfect peace,"
A rest from sin,—a full release,
My surest stay is God.
When fortune smiles and friends are true,
My pathway strewn with roses, too;
When all around in love combine
To make a pleasant pathway mine,
My surest stay is God.
If sorrows come and darkly roll
Dread, gloomy doubts upon my soul;
While tempests fierce rage in the skies,
And hopes and fears alternate rise,
My surest stay is God.
If friends forsake and me disown,
And sore afflictions bow me down,
With aching heart I seek to find
One place to rest my troubled mind,—
My surest stay is God.
When Jordan's waves dark flow beneath
And bear me to the gates of death;
When earthly helps and comforts flee,
And I no other rest can see,
My only stay is God.