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Text:On Trifling Cares
Author:P. Doddridge
Tune:WELTON
Composer:C. H. A. Malan

184. On Trifling Cares

1 Why do we waste on trifling cares
That life which God's compassion spares,
While in the various range of thought,
The one thing needful is forgot?

2 Shall God invite us from above?
Shall Jesus urge his dying love?
Shall troubled conscience give us pain?
And all these pleas unite in vain?

3 Not so our eyes will always view
Those objects which we now pursue;
Not so will heav'n and hell appear,
When death's decisive hour is near.

4 Almighty God, thy grace impart;
Fix deep conviction on each heart;
Nor let us waste on trifling cares
That life in which thy compassion spares.

Text Information
First Line: Why do we waste on trifling cares
Title: On Trifling Cares
Author: P. Doddridge
Language: English
Publication Date: 1908
Topic: Invitation and Repentance
Notes: Public Domain.
Tune Information
Name: WELTON
Composer: C. H. A. Malan
Meter: L. M.
Key: B♭ Major
Notes: Public Domain.



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