Is God’s perfect peace,
Over all victorious
In its bright increase.
Perfect, yet it floweth
Fuller ev’ry day,—
Perfect, yet it groweth
Deeper all the way.
2. Hidden in the hollow
Of his blessed hand,
Never foe can follow,
Never traitor stand;
Not a surge of worry,
Not a shade of care,
Not a blast of hurry,
Touch the spirit there.
3. Ev’ry joy or trial
Falleth from above,
Traced upon our dial
By the Sun of Love.
We may trust him fully
All for us to do;
They who trust him wholly
Find him wholly true.
Chorus:
Stayed upon Jehovah,
Hearts are fully blest,
Finding, as he promised,
Perfect peace and rest.
Frances Ridley Havergal was a daughter of William Henry Havergal and Jane Head. Her father was a minister in the Church of England, as well as a composer and poet. Frances was born at Astley, Worcestershire, December 14, 1836. She wrote that in 1851, “I committed my soul to the Saviour, and earth and heaven seemed brighter from that moment.” Frances experienced a great deal of suffering and frail health in her lifetime. She died at the age of forty-two at Caswell Bay, Swansea, June 3, 1879, and is buried at the Priory Church of St. Peter in Astley, Worcestershire, England.
Frances Havergal was well-educated, including mastering several languages, two of which were Greek and Hebrew. She was writing verses at a very young age, and spent much of her lifetime producing poems that expressed her deep love of her Lord Jesus Christ. One of her best-known hymns is “Take my life and let it be consecrated, Lord, to thee.”
James Mountain (1844-1933) wrote the tune Perfect Peace for this hymn, which appeared as number 272 in Hymns of Consecration and Faith. James Mountain was born at Leeds, York, England, July 16, 1844. He died June 27, 1933 and it buried at Kent and Sussex Cemetery and Crematorium in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. He composed this tune (also called Wye Valley) this text on one of the first preaching tours he made through Britain. Mountain was influenced by evangelical piety, and followed especially Dwight L. Moody and Ira Sankey in their evangelistic preaching and singing.
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