Text: | How Helpless Guilty Nature Lies |
Author: | Anne Steele |
Tune: | AZMON |
Arranger: | Lowell Mason |
Composer: | C. G. Gläser |
1 How helpless guilty nature lies,
Unconscious of its load!
The heart unchanged can never rise
To happiness and God.
2 Can aught beneath a power divine
The stubborn will subdue?
’Tis Thine, Almighty Savior, Thine
To form the heart anew.
3 ’Tis Thine the passions to recall,
And upwards bid them rise;
And make the scales of error fall
From reason’s darkened eyes.
4 To chase the shades of death away,
And bid the sinner live,
A beam of heaven, a vital ray
’Tis Thine alone to give.
5 O change these wretched hearts of ours,
And give them life divine!
Then shall our passions and our powers,
Almighty Lord, be Thine.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | How helpless guilty nature lies |
Title: | How Helpless Guilty Nature Lies |
Author: | Anne Steele (1780) |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1918 |
Topic: | The Christian Life: Faith and Justification |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | AZMON |
Arranger: | Lowell Mason (1839) |
Composer: | C. G. Gläser (1828) |
Key: | A♭ Major |