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My Lord, I often tremble with such fear
- 1318
MY LORD, I OFTEN TREMBLE WITH SUCH FEAR
to stand for you and speak your truth so clear;
to hold up high the standard of your Name,
to live, or die, without a hint of shame.
These days are cold, the light of love is low;
the times are hard, and so few seem to know
that you are here and making all things new—
my only hope, my only strength is you.
2 You are the King whose rule can never end.
You are the Lamb, my sacrificial Friend.
You are the One who gave himself for all.
You are the answer to my deepest call.
And yet, my faith is fragile and so thin,
so quick to hide and sink deep down within.
O raise me up and fill me with your light—
then walk with me and arm me for the fight.
3 Great is the cloud of those whose race is run;
their faith now crowned with joys of victory won.
And while we struggle in our battles here
they know that perfect love has cast out fear.
So may your love displace my faithlessness,
may I be clothed in your own righteousness.
My hope, my passion, by your Spirit’s breath,
to live for Jesus now and beyond death.
© 2013 GRAHAM OAKES/PRAISE TRUST
Graham Oakes
The Christian Life - Humbling and Restoration
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Tune
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Pantyfedwen 
Metre: - 10 10 10 10 D
Composer: - Evans, M. Eddie
A look at the authors
Evans, M. Eddie
b Talysarn, Gwynedd, N Wales 1890, d 1984. His parents owned and ran a grocer’s shop in Talysarn. This was subsequently sold and the family moved to Liverpool where they opened a new grocer’s shop. Eddie worked in this shop. Without formal musical training he became organist and choir master at Edge Lane C.M. Chapel for 35 years. Eddie began composing hymn tunes at 16, advised by John Henry Roberts, qv. Several of his 200 tunes won Eisteddfod prizes, including a national one in 1937. In the 1st world war he was a pianist/entertainer in the officers’ mess; on one visit to London he was deeply moved by the organ music at Westminster Abbey and was allowed by the organist Sir Frederick Bridge to play the famous instrument. Speaking of the original Welsh refrain to No. 178, one of the most popular of recent Welsh tunes, he said on Radio Wales when in his 90s, ‘It’s a great pity that everyone in this world couldn’t say that the Halleluia is in their souls’. No.178.
Mawson, Linda
Linda was born in Woking, Surrey 1947. She studied at the Royal College of Music and gained a BMus, GRSM, ARCM (Piano) Having worked in Music Education as both Piano Teacher and Secondary Music Teacher, Linda retired from teaching in July 2006. Her husband Peter also retired from Music education and early in 2007, they moved to Bristol where Peter served as co-Pastor in an Evangelical church in Headley Park. In May 2012 they moved again to Tenterden , Kent, where Peter is currently the Pastor of Trinity Baptist Church. Linda has served as music coordinator in each of the local churches she has belonged to and has also served within the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches in preparing music and as organist and pianist for Conferences.
Linda was invited to be music adviser and member of the Modern Songs team for Praise!, where her work is first published; subsequently she joined its Editorial Board as Member and Trustee. As such Linda has been involved in reviewing and selecting words and reviewing, composing and arranging music for both the book and online versions of the collection.
For many years she prepared a children’s chorus for a summer Bible Club; she had 23 compositions and 41 arrangements (many for instrumental groups and choirs) to her credit by the time of the publication of the hymn-book in 2000. Text nos.378, 796. Tune nos.2A, 100=440, 119A*, 119E*, 133B, 166, 190*, 195*, 202*=548*, 245, 248*=815*, 270, 275*, 295*, 324*, 328*, 350*, 361*, 363*, 367*, 371*, 378, 404, 408*, 432*, 453*=910*, 462*, 474*, 480*, 510*, 512, 516*, 519, 531=784, 534=623, 579*, 598, 614*, 636*, 655, 667*, 675*, 676*, 683*, 684*, 710*, 715*, 729*, 733*, 779, 784, 789=926, 795=887, 796, 804*, 869*, 882, 885*, 895*, 914, 920*, 922*, 937*, 946*, 948*, 973*, 1205*, 1217*, 1252*.
Oakes, Graham
Graham has seven songs published by Praise! online. numbers 1071, 1073, 1094, 1099, 1162, 1245 & 1318.