Hymnal: Fillmore's Harp of Zion
Date: 1867
Compiler: A D Fillmore
Publisher/Printer: R W Carroll & Co
First Line: Precious Bible what a treasure
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer: A Fillmore
Meter: 8 7 8 7 7 7
Tune: Precious Bible
Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>
Page Number: 272, 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 med'cine, shield and sword;
Let the world account me poor,
Having this, I need no more.
Food to which the world's a 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.
Shall I envy then the miser,
Doating on his golden store?
Sure I amor should be wiser,
I am rich, 't is he is poor;
Jesus gives me, in his Word,
Food and med'cine, shield and sword.