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%OHSCRIP Ps 73:23-28, Jn 14:1-4, 2Cor 5:1-10
%OHTOPICS {Assurance}, {Atonement}, {Brevity of Life}, {Comfort}, {Courage in Affliction}, {Eternal Life}, {Faith}, {God, Care of}, {God, Faithfulness of}, {God, Love of}, {Gratitude}, {Heaven}, {Joy}, {Love}, {Peace}, {Promises (see also Gospel)}, {Shepard/Lamb [11]}, {Trust}
%OHCATEGORY CROSS AND COMFORT
%OHMETRICAL 8 3 3 6 8 3 3 6
%OHCOMPLEXITY 3
%OHCOMPOSER Ebeling, Johann Georg (1637-1676)
%OHARRANGER Brauer, Karl (1831-1907)
%OHAUTHOR Gerhardt, Paul (1607-1676)
%OHTRANSLATOR Kelly, John (1833-1890)
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X: 1
T: Why Should Cross and Trial Grieve Me?
T: (also known as Why Should Sorrow Ever Grieve Me?)
C: Words: Paul Gerhardt, 1653.  Translated by John Kelly, 1867, alt.
C: Music: 'Ebeling' or 'Bonn' or 'Warum Sollt Ich' or 'All My Heart This Night' Johann Georg Ebeling, 1666. 
C: Setting: Karl Brauer, 1906, alt.
C: copyright: public domain.  This score is a part of the Open Hymnal Project, 2025 Revision.
S: Music Source: Mehrstimmiges Choralbuch, 1906 Hymn 172
S: Lyrics source: Composite from Paul Gerhardt's Spiritual Songs, 1867 and The Handbook to the Lutheran Hymnal, 1942 with a few tweaks by Brian J Dumont.  Note that the text from the Handbook to the Lutheran Hymnal is available on Project Wittenberg, operated by the Walther Library of Concordia Theological Seminary Fort Wayne and the text is listed as public domain.  https://www.projectwittenberg.org/etext/gerhardt_p/trial.txt  Any changes by Brian Dumont are released to the public domain.
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w: 1.~Why should cross and tri- al grieve me? Christ is near With His cheer;
w: 2.~Nought not e'en the life I'm li- ving, Is mine own, God a- lone
w: 3.~Though a hea- vy cross I'm bea- ring, And my heart Feels the smart,
w: 4.~God oft gives me days of glad- ness, Shall I grieve If He give
w: 5.~Though u- ni- ted world and de- vil, All their pow'r Can no more
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w: Ne- ver will He leave me. Who can rob me of the hea- ven 
w: All to me is gi- ving. Must I then His own re- store Him?
w: Shall I be des- pai- ring? God can help me, who doth send it,
w: Sea- sons too of sad- ness? God is good, and tem- pers e- ver
w: Do but mock and quib- ble. Let them now em- ploy their jee- ring,
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w: That God's Son, For my own, To my faith hath gi- ven?
w:  Though be- reft Of my flesh Still shall I a- dore Him.
w:  He doth know All my woe And how best to end it.
w:  All my ill, And He will Whol- ly leave me ne- ver.
w: Christ will here Then ap- pear Strike their hearts with fea- ring.
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%% 6. True believers shrinking never,
%% \t\t\t\t\tWhere they dwell Should reveal
%% \t\t\tTheir true colors ever.
%% \t\t\tWhen approaching death may scare them,
%% \t\t\t\t\tStill should they Patient stay
%% \t\t\tAnd with courage bear them.
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%% 7. Death can never kill us even,
%% \t\t\t\t\tBut relief From all grief
%% \t\t\tTo us then is given.
%% \t\t\tIt doth close life's mournful story,
%% \t\t\t\t\tMake a way That we may
%% \t\t\tPass to heav'nly glory.
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%% 8. There I'll reap enduring pleasure,
%% \t\t\t\t\tAfter woe Here below
%% \t\t\tSuffered in large measure.
%% \t\t\tLasting good we find here never,
%% \t\t\t\t\tAll that earth Deems as worth
%% \t\t\tVanishes for ever.
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%% 9. What is all this life possesses?
%% \t\t\t\t\tBut a hand Full of sand
%% \t\t\tThat the heart distresses.
%% \t\t\tNoble gifts that pall me never,
%% \t\t\t\t\tChrist so free There gives me
%% \t\t\tTo enjoy for ever.
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%% 10. Shepherd! Lord! joy's fountain ever,
%% \t\t\t\t\tThou art mine, I am Thine,
%% \t\t\tNo one can us sever.
%% \t\t\tI am Thine, because Thou bought me;
%% \t\t\t\t\tLost I stood, But Thy blood
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%% 11. Thou art mine; I love and own Thee,
%% \t\t\t\t\tLight of joy, Ne'er shall I,
%% \t\t\tFrom my heart dethrone Thee.
%% \t\t\tSavior, let me soon behold Thee
%% \t\t\t\t\tFace to face, Thy embrace
%% \t\t\tMay it soon enfold me!
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