Through the Night of Doubt and Sorrow

Text by Bernhardt Severin Ingemann

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About this hymn

Date: 1826
Tune: Rex Gloriae
Composer: Henry Thomas Smart
Key: A
Meter: 8 7 8 7 8 7 8 7

Historical background

This edition is preserved in the Open Hymnal Project at source revision d35811b2d5c9. Contributor and publication details below are reproduced from the score metadata rather than inferred.

Theology & Scripture

The source index associates this text with Anticipation, Art and Music, Assurance, Atonement, Brotherhood, Christian Life.

Heb 11:13-16 · 2Cor 5:1-10 · Rev 22:5 · Is 51:11-16 · 1Pt 1:17-21 · Heb 12:22-24 · Ps 119:105

Musical background

Rex Gloriae is presented in the source key of A, with four documented parts.

Sources & rights

Verified for United States on 2026-10-13. Public domain — source score marking

Words: Bernhardt S. Ingemann, 1826. Translated by Sabine Baring-Gould, 1867. Music: 'Rex Gloriae' Henry Thomas Smart, 1868. Setting: "Appendix to Hymns Ancient and Modern", 1869. copyright: public domain. This score is a part of the Open Hymnal Project, 2011 Revision.