Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: Precious Bible what a treasure
Topic: Scriptures
Writer: John Newton
Composer: A Fillmore
Meter: 8s 7s and 7s
Tune: Precious Bible
Hymn Number: 80
Page Number: 031, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsPRECIOUS Bible, what a treasure
Does the word of God afford!
All I want for life or pleasure,
Food and medicine, shield and sword:
Let the world account me poor,
Having this, I need no more.
Food to which the world's stranger,
Here my hungry soul enjoys;
Of excess there is no danger-
Though it fills, it never cloys:
On a dying Christ I feed,
He is meat and drink indeed.
In the hour of dark temptation,
Satan can not make me yield:
For the word of consolation
Is to me a mighty shield:
While the scripture truths are sure,
From his malice I'm secure.