Safety in the Lord

There's safety only in the Lord, whate'er our station be; We may be rich, we may be poor, may be on land or sea. Life's changing fortune will be ours where'er our lot is cast; Unchanged in mind be ours to meet each change while it shall last.

Dear friends are with us here to day with prospects fair to live; To-morrow to the dust, in tears, their dear remains we give. Now pain and suffering is our lot; now dawns a brighter day; But soon a cloud o'ercasts the sky and shuts the light away.

An under current often works to sweep away our peace, Our reputation is at stake, our trials fast increase. Dear reputation, dearest far, of all we've called our own, Must be defaced; then be it so; to God all things are known,