Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: We scatter seeds with careless hand (FL)

Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book

Date: 1882

Compiler: Fillmore Brothers

Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers

First Line: We scatter seeds with careless hand

Topic: Christian/Responsibility

Writer: John Deble

Composer: J Rosecrans

Meter: 8s 6s and 4s

Tune: We Scatter Seeds

Hymn Number: 623

Page Number: 239, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

WE SCATTER seeds with careless hand,

And dream we ne'er shall see them more;

But for a thousand years

Their fruit appears,

In weeds that mar the land,

Or healthful store.



The deeds we do, the words we say,

Into still air they seem to fleet;

We count them ever past;

But they shall last-

And in the judgment-day,

We them shall meet.



I charge, thee by the years gone by,

For the love's sake of brethren dear,

Keep, thou, the one true way

Through all thy day,

Lest in that world their cry

Of woe thou hear.