Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised
Date: 1882
Compiler: A I Hobbs et al
Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co
First Line: Let thoughtless thousands choose the road
Topic: Christ/Second Advent
Writer: Josiah Hopkins
Composer: William Boyce
Meter: LM
Tune: Appleton
Hymn Number: 188
Page Number: 075, 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 pow'rs.
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.