Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Beset with snares on every hand (FL)

Hymnal: A Selection of Christian Hymns

Date: 1818

Compiler: Rice Haggard

Publisher/Printer: John Norvell

First Line: Beset with snares on every hand

Topic: Supplication

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

Composer:

Meter: LM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 53

Page Number: 056, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Beset with snares on every hand,

In life's uncertain path I stand;

Saviour divine, diffuse thy light,

And guide my doubtful footsteps right.



Engage this roving treach'rous heart

To fix on Mary's better part:

To scorn the trifles of a day,

For joys that none can take away.



Then let the wildest storms arise;

Let tempests mingle earth and skies:

No fatal shipwreck shall I fear,

But all my treasures with me bear.



If tho, my Jesus, still be nigh,

Cheerful I live, and joyful die,

Secure when mortal comforts flee,

To find ten thousand worlds in thee.