2704 | The Cyber Hymnal#2705 | 2706 |
Text: | How Should We Spend Our Time? |
Author: | Maggie Metcalf |
Tune: | [How should we spend our time] |
Composer: | William James Kirkpatrick |
Media: | MIDI file |
1 How should we spend our time?
In folly and in sin?
Nay, rather let us seek while here
Some souls for Christ to win.
Refrain:
Then, up and be doing,
Go, work while you may;
Life swiftly is fleeting,
Why longer delay?
Press onward to battle,
Be strong in the Lord;
He’ll bear you up bravely,
Go, trusting His Word.
2 How should we spend our time?
In heaping worldly gains?
Oh, no, we’ll lay our treasure up
In Heav’n, where Jesus reigns. [Refrain]
3 How should we spend our time?
To gain th’applause of man?
No, no, we’ll work, and always seek
To praise the great I AM. [Refrain]
4 Then let us treasure time,
And live in doing good,
Remembering that to God we owe
Our lasting gratitude. [Refrain]
Text Information | |
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First Line: | How should we spend our time? |
Title: | How Should We Spend Our Time? |
Author: | Maggie Metcalf |
Refrain First Line: | Then, up and be doing |
Language: | English |
Source: | Goodly Pearls by John R. Sweney and John Hood (Philadelphia: John J. Hood, 1875) |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | [How should we spend our time] |
Composer: | William James Kirkpatrick |
Key: | E♭ Major |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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MIDI file: | Midi |
Noteworthy Composer score: | Noteworthy Composer Score |