Hymnal: Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs
Date: 1843
Compiler: A Campbell/ W Scott/ B W Stone/ J T Johnson
Publisher/Printer: A Campbell
First Line: Bless'd is the man who shuns the place
Topic: Christian Honors and Privileges
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune: New Orleans
Hymn Number: Song 29 (part I)
Page Number: 103 (part I), click to see hymnal pages
LyicsBLESS'D is the man who shuns the place
Where sinners love to meet,
Who fears to tread their wicked ways,
And hates the scoffer's seat:
But in the statutes of the Lord
Has plac'd his chief delight;
By day he reads or hears the word,
And mediates by night.
Green as the leaf, and ever fair,
Shall his profession shine;
While fruits of holiness appear
Like clusters on the vine.
Not so the impious and unjust:
What vain designs they form!
Their hopes are blown away like dust,
Or chaff before the storm.
Sinners in judgment shall not stand
Among the sons of grace,
When Christ the Judge at his right hand
Appoints his saints a place.
His eye beholds the path they tread
His heart approves it well;
But crooked ways of sinners lead
Down to the gates of hell.