Christians, Are the Words You Speak

Christians, are the words you speak

Author: Henry Francis Lyte
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 Christians, are the words you speak,
Like your Master's, kind and meek?
Do you judge your fellow-men,
As you would be judged again?

2 Do you in your conduct prove,
Children of a God of love,
Good and gentle, just and true,
As your Lord has been to you?

3 Ah, the bitterness of sin,
Lurks the fallen heart within,
And from thence unceasing flows,
Poisoning, blighting as it goes!

4 Lord, the slanderer's malice blast:
Let it come to naught at last,
Let Your rescued people cry,
'Yes, there is a God on high!'

Source: Psalms of Grace #58a

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Author: Henry Francis Lyte

Lyte, Henry Francis, M.A., son of Captain Thomas Lyte, was born at Ednam, near Kelso, June 1, 1793, and educated at Portora (the Royal School of Enniskillen), and at Trinity College, Dublin, of which he was a Scholar, and where he graduated in 1814. During his University course he distinguished himself by gaining the English prize poem on three occasions. At one time he had intended studying Medicine; but this he abandoned for Theology, and took Holy Orders in 1815, his first curacy being in the neighbourhood of Wexford. In 1817, he removed to Marazion, in Cornwall. There, in 1818, he underwent a great spiritual change, which shaped and influenced the whole of his after life, the immediate cause being the illness and death of a brother cler… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Christians, are the words you speak
Title:	Christians, Are the Words You Speak
Author:	Henry Francis Lyte
Meter:	7.7.7.7
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain