Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: Let thoughtless thousands choose the road
Topic: Christian/Consecration
Writer: Josiah Hopkins
Composer: C Malan
Meter: LM
Tune: Welton
Hymn Number: 159
Page Number: 056, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsLET thoughtless thousands choose the road
That leads the soul away from God;
This happiness, blest Lord, be mine,
To live and die entirely thine.
On Christ, by faith, my soul would live,
From him my life, my all, receive;
To him devote my fleeting hours,
Serve him alone with all my powers.
Christ is my everlasting all;
To him I look, on him I call;
He will my every want supply
In time, and through eternity.
Soon will the Lord, my life, appear;
Soon shall I end my trials here;
Leave sin and sorrow, death and pain;
To live is Christ, to die is gain.