3878 | The Cyber Hymnal#3879 | 3880 |
Text: | The Lodestone |
Author: | John Newton |
Tune: | HAMBURG |
Composer: | Lowell Mason |
Media: | MIDI file |
1. As needles point towards the pole,
When touched by the magnetic stone;
So faith in Jesus, gives the soul
A tendency before unknown.
2. Till then, by blinded passions led,
In search of fancied good we range;
The paths of disappointment tread,
To nothing fixed, but love of change.
3. But when the Holy Ghost imparts
A knowledge of the Savior’s love;
Our wand’ring, weary, restless hearts,
Are fixed at once, no more to move.
4. Now a new principle takes place,
Which guides and animates the will;
This love, another name for grace,
Constrains to good, and bars from ill.
5. By love’s sure light we soon perceive
Our noblest bliss, and proper end;
And gladly every idol leave,
To love and serve our Lord and Friend.
6. Thus borne along by faith and hope,
We feel the Savior’s words are true;
And I, if I be lifted up,
Will draw the sinner upward too.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | As needles point towards the pole |
Title: | The Lodestone |
Author: | John Newton (1779) |
Meter: | LM |
Language: | English |
Source: | Olney Hymns (London: W. Oliver, 1779), number 90 |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Notes: | Alternate tunes: DUANE STREET, George Coles, 1835; HE LEADETH ME, William B. Bradbury, 1864 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | HAMBURG |
Composer: | Lowell Mason (1824) |
Meter: | LM |
Incipit: | 11232 34323 33343 |
Key: | F Major |
Source: | First appeared in The Boston Handel and Haydn Society Collection of Church Music, third edition, 1825 |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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Adobe Acrobat image: | Adobe Acrobat image (Cyber Hymnal) |
MIDI file: | MIDI File (Cyber Hymnal) |
Noteworthy Composer score: | Noteworthy Composer score (Cyber Hymnal) |
XML score: | XML score |