God's will is best

Across the mystic maze of years

Author: C. Austin Miles
Tune: [Across the mystic maze of years]
Published in 3 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 Across the mystic maze of years
God draws a veil lest I might see
What grief and pain and weight of tears
Await to cast their lot with me.

Refrain:
Some day I know His face I’ll see,
He only knows when that shall be.
But I’m content with this to rest,
This is God’s way,
It must be best.

2 There is no woe that I must face
Nor evil hand nor gaunt despair,
But God will grant His keeping grace
To stay my soul in comfort there. [Refrain]

3 I am His child, He will not leave
His own to fall beneath the rod.
If wand’ring faith His love should grieve
He will forgive, for He is God. [Refrain]

Source: New Songs of Praise and Power 1-2-3 Combined #154

Author: C. Austin Miles

Charles Austin Miles USA 1868-1946. Born at Lakehurst, NJ, he attended the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and the University of PA. He became a pharmacist. He married Bertha H Haagen, and they had two sons: Charles and Russell. In 1892 he abandoned his pharmacy career and began writing gospel songs. At first he furnished compositions to the Hall-Mack Publishing Company, but soon became editor and manager, where he worked for 37 years. He felt he was serving God better in the gospel song writing business, than as a pharmacist. He published the following song books: “New songs of the gospel” (1900), “The service of praise” (1900), “The voice of praise” (1904), “The tribute of song” (1904), “New songs of the gospel… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Across the mystic maze of years
Title: God's will is best
Author: C. Austin Miles
Refrain First Line: Some day I know His face I'll see
Copyright: Public Domain

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