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| Text: | How Helpless Guilty Nature Lies |
| Author: | Anne Steele |
1 How helpless guilty nature lies,
Unconscious of its load!
The heart unchanged can never rise
To happiness and God.
2 Can aught beneath a power divine
The stubborn will subdue?
’Tis Thine, Almighty Saviour, Thine,
To form the heart anew.
3 ’Tis Thine the passions to recall,
And upwards bid them rise;
And make the scales of error fall
From reason’s darkened eyes.
4 To chase the shades of death away,
And bid the sinner live,
A beam of heaven, a vital ray,
’Tis Thine alone to give.
5 O change these wretched hearts of ours,
And give them life divine!
Then shall our passions and our powers,
Almighty Lord, be Thine.
Amen.
| Text Information | |
|---|---|
| First Line: | How helpless guilty nature lies |
| Title: | How Helpless Guilty Nature Lies |
| Author: | Anne Steele |
| Publication Date: | 1937 |
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