1. Joys are flowing like a river, Since the Comforter has come; He abides with us forever, Makes the trusting heart His home. 2. Bringing life and health and gladness, All around this heavenly Guest, Banished unbelief and sadness, Changed our weariness to rest. 3. Like the rain that falls from Heaven, Like the sunlight from the sky, So the Holy Ghost is given, Coming on us from on high. 4. See, a fruitful field is growing, Blessed fruit of righteousness; And the streams of life are flowing In the lonely wilderness. 5. What a wonderful salvation, Where we always see His face! What perfect habitation, What a quiet resting place! Chorus: Blessed quietness, holy quietness, What assurance in my soul! On the stormy sea, He speaks peace to me, How the billows cease to roll!
Lyrics: Manie Payne Ferguson
Music: W. S. Marshall
Tune: BLESSED QUIETNESS
Manie P. Ferguson, 19th century
The text for “Blessed Quietness” was written about 1900 by Manie Payne Ferguson after she had come into the Wesleyan experience of “holiness” or “entire sanctification” or—as some call it— “the filling of the Holy Spirit.”