Wonderful Peace, (first line: ‘Far away in the depths of my spirit tonight’) is a bit of deep dive.
It’s one of those hymns I don’t really know, but get introduced to when it’s included on a hymns album recorded by someone I like.
So among the many familiars, there’s something new.
In this case it was Don Moen’s Hymnbook album, which featured 16 selections of which I think I knew 14 and was introduced to this and He Giveth More Grace.
A number of tracks on this release have representative renditions with verses omitted here and there. This recording features one and five.
The lyrics:
1.
Far away in the depths of my spirit tonight
Rolls a melody sweeter than psalm;
In celestial-like strains it unceasingly falls
O’er my soul like an infinite calm.
Refrain.
Peace! Peace! wonderful peace,
Coming down from the Father above;
Sweep over my spirit forever, I pray,
In fathomless billows of love.
2.
What a treasure I have in this wonderful peace,
Buried deep in the heart of my soul;
So secure that no power can mine it away,
While the years of eternity roll.
Refrain.
3.
I am resting tonight in this wonderful peace,
Resting sweetly in Jesus’ control;
For I’m kept from all danger by night and by day,
And His glory is flooding my soul.
Refrain.
4.
And methinks when I rise to that City of peace,
Where the Author of peace I shall see,
That one strain of the song which the ransomed will sing,
In that heavenly kingdom shall be:
Refrain.
5.
Ah! soul, are you here without comfort or rest,
Marching down the rough pathway of time?
Make Jesus your friend ere the shadows grow dark;
Oh, accept this sweet peace so sublime.
Refrain.
Words: Warren Donald Cornell
Tune: FAR AWAY IN THE DEPTHS OF MY SPIRIT TONIGHT William Gustin Cooper
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