Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Broad is the road that leads to death (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn-Book

Date: 1829

Compiler: B W Stone and T Adams

Publisher/Printer: N L Finnell

First Line: Broad is the road that leads to death

Topic: Awakening

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer:

Meter: LM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 23

Page Number: 028, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Broad is the road that leads to death,

And thousands walk together there;

But wisdom shows a narrow path,

With here and there a traveller.



"Deny thyself - take up thy cross,"

Is the Redeemer's great command:

Nature must count her gold but dross,

If she would gain this heav'nly land.



The fearful soul that tires and faints,

And walks the way of God no more,

Is but esteem'd almost a saint,

And makes his own destruction sure.



Lord, let not all my hopes be vain;

Create my heart entirely new;

And bring me with thyself to reign,

Where vile apostates never do.