Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal
Date: 1871
Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee
Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall
First Line: How painfully pleasing the fond recollection
Topic: The Holy Scriptures
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer: T Cook
Meter: 12s and 11s
Tune: The Family Bible
Hymn Number: 16
Page Number: 010, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsHow painfully pleasing the fond recollection
That Bible, the volume of God's inspiration,
At morn and at evening could yield us delight;
And the prayer of our sire was a sweet invocation
For mercy by day and for safety through night;
Our hymn of thanksgiving with harmony swelling
All warm from the heart of the family band,
Has raised us from earth to that rapturous dwelling,
Described in the Bible that lay on the stand.