Hymnal: The Christian Hymn-Book
Date: 1829
Compiler: B W Stone and T Adams
Publisher/Printer: N L Finnell
First Line: Let Pharisees of high esteem
Topic: The Christian
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 218
Page Number: 243, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsLet Pharisees of high esteem,
Their zeal and faith declare;
All their religion is a dream,
If love be wanting there.
Love suffers long, and patiently,
Nor is provoked in haste;
She lets the present injury die,
And long forgets the past.
Malice and rage, those fires of hell,
She quenches with her tongue;
Hopes and believes, and thinks no ill,
Tho' she endures the wrong.
She ne'er desires, nor seeks to know
The scandals of the time;
Nor looks with pride on these below,
Nor envies those that climb.
She lays her own advantage by,
To seek her neighbor's good;
So God's own Son came down to die,
And bought us with his blood.
Love is the grace that keeps her power,
In all the realms above;
There faith and hope are known no more,
But saints forever love.