Text:My Hope Is Built
Author:Edward Mote
Tune:SOLID ROCK
Composer:William Batchelder Bradbury
Media:MIDI file

4424. My Hope Is Built

1. My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness.
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly lean on Jesus’ name.

Refrain
On Christ the solid rock I stand,
All other ground is sinking sand;
All other ground is sinking sand.

2. When darkness seems to hide His face,
I rest on His unchanging grace.
In every high and stormy gale,
My anchor holds within the veil. [Refrain]

3. His oath, His covenant, His blood,
Support me in the whelming flood.
When all around my soul gives way,
He then is all my hope and stay. [Refrain]

4. When He shall come with trumpet sound,
Oh may I then in Him be found.
Dressed in His righteousness alone,
Faultless to stand before the throne. [Refrain]

Text Information
First Line: My hope is built on nothing less
Title: My Hope Is Built
Author: Edward Mote (1834)
Refrain First Line: On Christ the solid rock I stand
Language: English
Source: Mote’s Hymns of Praise, 1836
Copyright: Public Domain
Notes: One morning it came into my mind as I went to labour, to write an hymn on the 'Gracious Experience of a Christian.' As I went up Holborn I had the chorus, 'On Christ the solid Rock I stand,All other ground is sinking sand.'In the day I had four first verses complete, and wrote them off. On the Sabbath following I met brother King as I came out of Lisle Street Meeting...who informed me that his wife was very ill, and asked me to call and see her. I had an early tea, and called afterwards. He said that it was his usual custom to sing a hymn, read a portion, and engage in prayer, before he went to meeting. He looked for his hymn-book but could find it nowhere. I said, 'I have some verses in my pocket; if he liked, we would sing them.' We did, and his wife enjoyed them so much, that after service he asked me, as a favour, to leave a copy of them for his wife. I went home, and by the fireside composed the last two verses, wrote the whole off, and took them to sister King...As these verses so met the dying woman's case, my attention to them was the more arrested, and I had a thousand printed for distribution. I sent one to the Spiritual Magazine, without my initials, which appeared some time after this. Brother Rees, of Crown Street, Soho, brought out an edition of hymns [1836], and this hymn was in it. David Denham introduced it [1837] with Rees' name, and others after...Your inserting this brief outline may in future shield me from the charge of stealth, and be a vindication of truthfulness in my connection with the Church of God. Edward Mote, Letter to the Gospel Herald. Alternate tunes: MELITA, John B. Dykes, 1860; REST (STAINER), John Stainer, 1875
Tune Information
Name: SOLID ROCK
Composer: William Batchelder Bradbury (1863)
Incipit: 51353 32234 44217
Key: F Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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