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We rest on Thee, our Shield and our Defender;
We go not forth alone against the foe;
Strong in Thy strength, safe in Thy keeping tender.
We rest on Thee, and in Thy Name we go.
We go not forth alone against the foe;
Strong in Thy strength, safe in Thy keeping tender.
We rest on Thee, and in Thy Name we go.
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Yea, in Thy Name, O Captain of salvation!
In Thy dear Name, all other names above;
Jesus our Righteousness, our sure Foundation,
Our Prince of glory and our King of love.
In Thy dear Name, all other names above;
Jesus our Righteousness, our sure Foundation,
Our Prince of glory and our King of love.
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We go in faith, our own great weakness feeling,
And needing more each day Thy grace to know:
Yet from our hearts a song of triumph pealing;
We rest on Thee, and in Thy Name we go.
And needing more each day Thy grace to know:
Yet from our hearts a song of triumph pealing;
We rest on Thee, and in Thy Name we go.
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We rest on Thee, our Shield and our Defender:
Thine is the battle, Thine shall be the praise
When reigning in the Kingdom of Thy splendor;
Victors, we rest with Thee, through endless days.
Thine is the battle, Thine shall be the praise
When reigning in the Kingdom of Thy splendor;
Victors, we rest with Thee, through endless days.
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Storrs, Connecticut, United States
Edith Adeline Gilling Cherry (1872-1898) was born at Plymouth, Devon in the United Kingdom. She was disabled from the age of 16 months by poliomyelitis and walked with crutches. The death of her only sister, who died at age 4, when Edith was age 6 devastated her. She had a gift for poetry and wrote much before the age of 15. She had friends who helped her supporting Sunday school work at the YWCA. Edith was a gifted illustrator of cards and porcelain which she neatly embellished with flowers or fern sprays, and Bible texts. Of her verse, she said, "they were given to me, and all I had to do was write them down," Some of her poems appeared in print in the periodical "the Cristian". She had two strokes in her life and the third at age 25, took her life. She wrote beautiful poems and many hymn lyrics, filling two volumes. She wrote a poem on hearing of the death of C. H. Spurgeon.
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Okota, Lagos, Nigeria
Jesus! Our Shield! Our Defender in this very dark age. We praise HIM!!