Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

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

Hymnal: A Selection of Christian Hymns

Date: 1818

Compiler: Rice Haggard

Publisher/Printer: John Norvell

First Line: Broad is the road that leads to death

Topic: Awakening

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer:

Meter: LM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 20

Page Number: 024, 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 traveller.



"Deny thyself, take up thy cross,"

Is the Redeemer's great command;

Nature must count her gold but dross;

If she would gain this heavenly land.



The fearful soul that tires and faints,

And walks the way of God no more,

Is but esteemed almost a saint,

And makes his own destruction sure.



Lord, let not all my hopes be vain;

Create my heart entirely new:

And bring me with thyself to reign,

Where false apostates never do.