The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book ‎#373

373. How helpless guilty nature lies

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 Spirit! thine,
To form the heart anew.

3 'Tis thine, the passions to recall,
And upward bid them rise;
To make the scales of error fall
From reason's darkened eyes.

4 Oh change these wretched hearts of ours,
And give them life divine;
Then shall our passions and our powers,
Almighty Lord! be thine.

Text Information

• First Line: How helpless guilty nature lies
• Author: Anne Steele
• Publication Date: 1886
• Topic: The Sinner: Christ the Way of Life
• Notes: Public Domain.

Tune Information

• Name: MONSON
• Composer: S. R. Brown
• Meter: C.M.
• Key: A Major
• Notes: Now Public Domain. Alternate tunes: #179, 201, or 227.