Author: Dr. Walter C. Smith, 1824- Hymnal: Methodist Hymn and Tune Book #342 (1917) Lyrics: 1 One thing I of the Lord desire
For all my way hath miry been
Be it by water or by fire,
O make me clean!
2 If clearer vision Thou impart,
Grateful and glad my soul shall be;
But yet to have a purer heart
Is more to me.
3 Yea, only as the heart is clean
May larger vision yet be mine,
For mirrored in its depths are seen
The things divine.
4 I watch to shun the miry way,
And stanch the spring of guilty thought;
But, watch and wrestle as I may,
Pure I am not.
5 So wash Thou me without, within;
Or purge with fire, if that must be;
No matter how, if only sin
Die out in me. Topics: Clean Heart; Prayer For Clean Heart; The Church and the Kingdom of God Evangelism; Heart Clean Languages: English Tune Title: WILLENHALL
One thing I of the Lord desire