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Morro Rock

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

My Hope Is Built

Boat Dock in Morro Bay

The Solid Rock

(Matt. 7:24-27)

1976, Paragon Associates, Inc.
Words and Music by Edward Mote and William Bradbury


    E      C#m      F#m      B
My hope is built on nothing less,
      A      F#m       A    B   E
Than Jesus' blood and righteousness.
   E        C#m        F#m      B
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
      A    F#m      A B    E
But wholly lean on Jesus' Name.

            E                A
      On Christ the solid rock I stand,
          E      C#m      F#m      B
      All other ground is sinking sand,
          A      F#m       B       E
      All other ground is sinking sand.

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.

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.

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.

Edward Mote was born in London in 1797. His parents managed a London pub
 and left Edward much to his own devices. "My Sundays were spent in the 
streets," said Edward of his younger years. "So ignorant was I that I did not know that there was a God."

Boat Returning At Dusk

Another Version

 
Chorus

                              A

On Christ the solid Rock I stand

        E              Bsus  B

All other ground is sinking sand

        E             B     E/G# A2 E2 E/G# A2 E

All other ground is sinking sand



Verse 1

        E            Bsus   B

My hope is built on nothing less

          A            B        E Esus

Than Jesus' blood and righteousness

                             
           B
I dare not trust the sweetest frame

        A          B        E

But wholly lean on Jesus' Name



(REPEAT CHORUS)



Verse 2

  E                      Bsus  B

When darkness veils His lovely face

    A                B   E Esus

I rest on His unchanging grace

                            
         B
In every high and stormy gale

     A            B        E

My anchor holds within the veil



(REPEAT CHORUS)



Verse 3

E                    Bsus B

His oath His covenant His blood

    A              B       E Esus

Support me in the whelming flood

                   B            

When all around my soul gives way

     A             B       E

He then is all my Hope and Stay



(REPEAT CHORUS)



Verse 4

E                       Bsus    B

When He shall come with trumpet sound

   A             B      E Esus

Oh may I then in Him be found

                                    
                B
Dressed in His righteousness alone

    A              B            E

Faultless to stand before the throne



(REPEAT CHORUS)

Young Edward took up an apprenticeship with a cabinetmaker, and at sixteen his master took him to hear the preaching of Tottenham Court Chapel's John Hyatt. This experience would change Mote's life, for it was here that he dedicated himself to Jesus Christ.

The Solid Rock History

Beautiful Morro Bay Harbor

Hillsongs Version

Verse 1:
   D                A                        G                    D
My hope is built on nothing less, than Jesus's blood and righteousness

D                    A                     G              A      D
I dare not trust the sweetest frame, but wholly lean on Jesus's name


Chorus:
                      G                 D                       A
On Christ, the solid rock, i stand; All other ground is sinking sand

      D               A      D
All other ground is sinking sand

Arrangement in Key of G

They who trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Zion, which cannot be moved... Ps. 125:1

B/D My

GB/DG hope

GB/DB is

GB/GD built

GD/GB on

DD/GB noth-

DD/F#A ing

DD/F#A less

GD/GB than

CE/GC Jesus' blood

CC/EA and

DB/DG right-

DA/DF# eous

GB/DG ness

GB/D I

GB/DG dare

GB/DB not

GB/GD trust

GD/GB the

DD/GB sweet-

DD/F#A est frame

GD/GB but

CE/GC wholly

CE/GC lean

CC/EA on

DB/DG Je-

DA/DF# sus

GB/DG name.

GB/GD On

GB/GD Christ

AC/F#D the

BD/GD sol

GB/GD id

CC/GC Rock, I stand; All

GB/GD oth-

G/DB ther ground

GB/DG is

GG/DB sink-

BG/DB ing

DF#/DA sand,

CF#/D All

BG/DG oth-

GG/BG er

CG/EG ground

GG/DB is

DG/DA sink-

DF#/CA ing

GG/BG sand

Enjoy playing this wonderful hymn full of assurance.

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