The Arm That Is Stronger than Mine

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I'm trustingly walking along life's way

Author: Haldor Lillenas
Tune: [I'm trustingly walking along life's way]
Published in 2 hymnals

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1 I’m trustingly walking along life’s way,
Securely protected from day to day,
My burdens and sorrows I gladly lay
On the arm that is stronger than mine.

Chorus:
The arm that is stronger, is stronger than mine,
Upholds me by power, by pow’r divine,
No evil molesting, while here I a resting
On the arm that is stronger the mine.

2 The problems of life would perplex me here,
The trials would oft fill my heart with fear,
When most I am tempted then He is near
With an arm that is stronger than mine. [Chorus]

3 How often encumbered with anxious care,
How needless the burdens I often bear,
When Jesus is waiting my load to share
With an arm that is stronger than mine. [Chorus]

Source: Devotion and Praise #6

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Author: Haldor Lillenas

Rv Haldor Lillenas DMus Norway/USA 1885-1959. Born at Stord, near Bergen, Norway, his father sold their 15 acre farm in Norway and emigrated to the U.S., buying a farm in Colton, SD. After he built a sod house, the family (wife and three chldren) also came to SD in 1887. They moved to Astoria, Oregon in 1889, where Lillenas learned English and began writing song lyrics at an early age. In 1900 the family moved again to Roseville, MN, where he worked as a farm laborer and began attending a Lutheran high school at Hawick, MN. He sold a few songs at age 19. At age 21 he began writing more songs, encouraged by some earlier ones becoming popular (“He set me free” was one). His mother died in 1906 and his father returned to ND, but Li… Go to person page >

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First Line:	I'm trustingly walking along life's way
Title:	The Arm That Is Stronger than Mine
Author:	Haldor Lillenas
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	The arm that is stronger, is stronger than mine
Publication Date:	1919
Copyright:	Public Domain