A Selection of Hymns ‎#DXXII

DXXII. The importance of educating youth

Congregation:
1 Now let our hearts conspire to raise
A cheerful anthem to his praise
Who reigns enthron'd above:
Let music, sweet as incense, rise
With grateful odours to the skies.
The work of joy and love.

Children:
2 Teach us to bow before thy face,
Nor let our hearts forget thy grace,
Or slight thy providence
When lost in ignorance we lay,
To vice and death an easy prey,
Thy goodness snatch'd us thence.

Congregation:
3 O what a numerous race we see,
In ignorance and misery,
Unprincipled, untaught!
Shall they continue still to lie
In ignorance and misery?
We cannot bear the thought.

Children:
4 Give, Lord, each liberal soul to prove
The joys of thine exhaustless love;
And while thy praise we sing,
May we the sacred scriptures know,
And like the blessed Jesus grow,
That earth and heaven may ring.

Congregation:
5 We feel a sympathizing heart,
Lord, 'tis a pleasure to impart
To thee thine own we give:
Hear thou our cry, and pitying see,
O let these children live to thee,
O let these children live.

Text Information

• First Line: Now let our hearts conspire to raise
• Title: The importance of educating youth
• Author: D. Bradberry (alt.)
• Meter: Chatham tune
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1792
• Topic: Times and Seasons: Youth Educated; Education of youth; Sunday Schools; Youth educated

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