Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Broad is the road that leads to death (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised

Date: 1882

Compiler: A I Hobbs et al

Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co

First Line: Broad is the road that leads to death

Topic: Apostasy

Writer: Isaac Watts

Composer: Daniel Read

Meter: LM

Tune: Windham (Stop)

Hymn Number: 241

Page Number: 090, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

BROAD is the road that leads to death,

And thousands walk together there;

But wisdom shows a narrow path,

With here and there a traveler.



"Deny thyself, and take thy cross,"

Is the Redeemer's great command;

Nature must count her gold but dross

If she would gain this heav'nly land.



The fearful soul that tires and faints,

And walks the ways of God no more,

Is but esteem'd almost a saint,

And makes his own destruction sure.



Lord, let my hopes be not in vain;

Create my heart entirely new;

This, hypocrites could ne'er attain;

This false apostates never knew.