When I Fear My Faith Will Fail

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When I Fear My Faith Will Fail (He Will Hold Me Fast)
Ada Ruth Habershon and Robert Harkness

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Habershon wrote the lyrics at the request of gospel singer and evangelist Charles M. Alexander for an evangelistic tour Alexander was planning. Harkness, Alexander's pianist, composed the musical setting for the hymn,

1938190When I Fear My Faith Will Fail (He Will Hold Me Fast)Ada Ruth Habershon and Robert Harkness

Versions of When I Fear My Faith Will Fail (He Will Hold Me Fast) include:

"He Will Hold Me Fast" in The Canadian Soldiers' Song Book (1918).
"When I Fear My Faith Will Fail" in The Army and Navy Hymnal, (ed.) by Henry Augustine Smith (1920).