Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

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

Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal

Date: 1871

Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee

Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall

First Line: Broad is the road that leads to death

Topic: The Gospel Invitations

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

Composer: S Vail

Meter: LM

Tune: Forest (Stop)

Hymn Number: 209

Page Number: 080, 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 traveler.



"Deny thyself, and take thy cross,"

Is the Redeemer's great command;

Nature must count her gold but dross

If she would gain this heavenly land.



The fearful soul that tires and faints,

And walks the ways of God no more,

Is but esteemed almost a saint,

And makes his own destruction sure.



Lord, let my hopes be not in vain,

Create my heart entirely new;

This, hypocrites could ne'er attain;

This, false apostates never know.