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Text:One Thing needful
Author:Philip Doddridge
Tune:SEASONS
Composer:I. Pleyel

283. One Thing needful

1 Why will ye 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 you from above?
Shall Jesus urge his dying love?
Shall troubled conscience give you pain?
And all these please unite in vain?

3 Not so your eyes will always view
Those objects which you now pursue;
Not so will heaven 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 which thy compassion spares.

Text Information
First Line: Why will ye waste on trifling cares
Title: One Thing needful
Author: Philip Doddridge
Language: English
Publication Date: 1888
Scripture: ; ;
Topic: Access to God; Conscience
Notes: Public Domain.
Tune Information
Name: SEASONS
Composer: I. Pleyel
Meter: L. M.
Key: A♭ Major
Notes: Public Domain.



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