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<title>BLB Hymns</title>
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<h2>MY FAITH LOOKS UP TO THEE</h2>
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<p align="center"><h3>“We live by faith, not by sight.” 2 Corinthians 5:7</h3></p>
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<center><b>Hymns Supplied Through the Gracious Generosity<br>of the </b><a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/" target = "_blank"><b>Cyber Hymnal Website</b></a><br><br><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/cyberhymnal_info.html" target = "_blank">Information about Cyber Hymnal Website</a></center>
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<td><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_p_a_palmer_r.jpg" alt="Ray Palmer (1808-1887)" width="122" height="186"></td>
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<td><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_p_a_palmer_r.html" target="_blank">Ray Palmer</a>, 1830.
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<p><em>Music:</em> “Olivet (Mason),” <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_m_a_mason_l.html" target="_blank">Lowell Mason</a>, 1830 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_o_olivet.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<td width="181" align="center"><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_m_a_mason_l.jpg" alt="Lowell Mason (1792-1872)" width="120.666666666667" height="163.333333333333"><br>
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<span class="cou">Courtesy of Yale Divinity School Library</span></td>
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<p class="just">Ray Palmer wrote these lyrics upon receiving a vision of Christ shortly after his graduation Yale University, while working as a tutor at a New York school. However, he kept them to himself until meeting <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_m_a_mason_l.html" target="_blank">Lowell Mason</a> on a street in Boston, Massachusetts. When Mason asked him to write something for a new hymnal, Palmer dug out his old notes and produced these lyrics, written two years earlier. After taking the lyrics home
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and reading them, Mason composed this tune. Several days later he saw Palmer again and said:</p>
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<p>You may live many years and do many good things, but I think you will be best known to posterity as the author of <em>My Faith Looks Up to Thee</em>.</p>
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<p>My faith looks up to Thee,<br>
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Thou Lamb of Calvary, Savior divine!<br>
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Now hear me while I pray, take all my guilt away,<br>
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O let me from this day be wholly Thine!</p>
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<p>May Thy rich grace impart<br>
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Strength to my fainting heart, my zeal inspire!<br>
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As Thou hast died for me, O may my love to Thee,<br>
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Pure warm, and changeless be, a living fire!</p>
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<p>While life’s dark maze I tread,<br>
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And griefs around me spread, be Thou my Guide;<br>
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Bid darkness turn to day, wipe sorrow’s tears away,<br>
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Nor let me ever stray from Thee aside.</p>
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<p>When ends life’s transient dream,<br>
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When death’s cold sullen stream over me roll;<br>
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Blest Savior, then in love, fear and distrust remove;<br>
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O bear me safe above, a ransomed soul!</p>
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