Through the Night of Doubt and Sorrow Lyrics

Through the night of doubt and sorrow

Onward goes the pilgrim band

Singing songs of expectation

Marching to the promised land

Clear before us through the darkness

Gleams and burns the guiding light

Pilgrim clasps the hand of pilgrim

Stepping fearless through the night

One the light of God's own presence

On the ransomed people shed

Chasing far the gloom and terror

Bright'ning all the path we tread

One the object of our journey

One the faith which never tires

One the earnest looking forward

One the hope our God inspires

One the strain that lips of thousands

Lift as from the heart of one

One the conflict, one the peril

One the march in God begun

One the gladness of rejoicing

On the far eternal shore

Where the one almighty Father

Reigns in love forevermore

Onward, therefore, sisters, brothers

Onward, with the cross our aid

Bear its shame, and fight its battle

Till we rest beneath its shade

Soon shall come the great awaking

Soon the rending of the tomb

Then the scatt'ring of all shadows

And the end of toil and gloom