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16121 | The Cyber Hymnal#16122 | 16123 |
Text: | How Painful Is The Task |
Author: | Benjamin Beddome, 1717-1795 |
Tune: | AYLSEBURY |
Composer: | John Chetham |
Media: | MIDI file |
1 How painful is the task,
A member to disown;
Once by the church esteemed and loved,
And as a brother known.
2 Could aught prevent the deed,
The solemn deed declared,
How happy it for us had been,
From such a duty spared.
3 But oh, the love of Christ,
The love of truth demands,
This needful, painful sacrifice,
This duty at our hands.
4 Should we at sin connive,
Or any evil spare,
How could we give account at last,
When Jesus shall appear.
5 His eyes as flames of fire,
Search all the churches through,
Naught can be hidden from His sight,
Though veiled from mortal view.
6 To Him may we ourselves,
In faithfulness approve;
And while we mourn our humbled state,
Wait His reviving love.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | How painful is the task |
Title: | How Painful Is The Task |
Author: | Benjamin Beddome, 1717-1795 |
Meter: | SM |
Language: | English |
Source: | Hymns Adapted to Public Worship (London: Burton and Briggs,1818) |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Notes: | Alternate tunes: BADEA (German tune), BOYLSTON by Lowell Mason, BRUNEAU DUNES by George N. Fenn |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | AYLSEBURY |
Composer: | John Chetham |
Meter: | SM |
Key: | e minor or modal |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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