Number: 199
English: 
Title: In Our Mingled Joys and Sorrows
Name: 
Words: Sam Jones
Music: 
Meter: 
Form: 

In our min¤gled joys and sor¤rows,
As we face life’s surg¤ing tides,
More and more we feel our need of love and ¤grace.
All our ef¤forts dis¤ap¤point us
When con¤trolled by aught be¤sides,
We must love if we would win the heav’n¤ly ¤race.

Chorus:
When the sun rose bright and ¤fair
And our chief de¤light was prayer,
We be¤lieved that Christ would help us
To with¤stand the “noon¤day” ¤glare.
When we reach the gold¤en “sun¤set”
And have laid our bur¤dens down,
Will we have a spot¤less re¤cord?
Will the Lord be¤stow a crown?

We look back up¤on the dawn¤ing
Of the “day¤star’s” first bright gleam,
When with min¤gled fear and joy we heard that ¤voice,
How it gripped and pulled our heart¤strings,
E’en con¤trolled our mid¤night dream,
Then we yield¤ed to His claims and made our ¤choice.

How the glo¤ries of the “sun¤rise,”
Filled our hearts with hope and zeal,
How we feared lest we might grieve that friend di¤¤vine,
And the time we spent in se¤cret
Was so sweet and strange¤ly real,
As we heard the gen¤tle sum¤mons, “Come and ¤dine.”

We are near¤ing now the “noon¤tide,”
Man¤y dreams have come to nought,
Is our love and pur¤pose just as true to¤¤day?
Are we firm or do we wa¤ver,
When a bat¤tle must be fought?
Do we hear His voice as clear¤ly when we ¤pray?

Oft we think of life’s great “sun¤set,”
When the strug¤gle will be o’er,
And we long to have a re¤cord clean and ¤fair,
That will be an in¤spi¤ra¤tion,
Like the faith¤ful gone be¤fore,
To each wea¤ry soul who still the cross must ¤bear.