Text: | Why do we waste on trifling cares |
Author: | Philip Doddridge |
Tune: | BERA |
Composer: | John E. Gould |
1 Why do we 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 us from above?
Shall Jesus urge his dying love?
Shall troubled conscience give us pain?
And all these please unite in vain?
3 Not so our eyes will always view
Those objects which we 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 care
That life which thy compassion spares.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Why do we waste on trifling cares |
Author: | Philip Doddridge |
Publication Date: | 1886 |
Topic: | The Sinner: Warning and Invitation |
Notes: | Public Domain. |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | BERA |
Composer: | John E. Gould |
Meter: | L. M. |
Key: | E♭ Major |
Notes: | Now Public Domain. Alternate tunes: 215, 108, or 136. |