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| Text: | My Only Hope |
| Author: | Jessie F. Moser |
| Tune: | [Lord, how can one so vile] |
| Composer: | Gordon E. Hooker |
1 Lord, how can one so vile,
A temple build like Thine?
How use Thy plan, and not defile
Or grieve Thy love divine?
2 Have mercy, Lord, I pray,
And, oh, do not forsake;
The laws, on Sinai, seeks to slay;
I greatly “fear and quake.”
3 My only hope, Thy pow’r
To cleanse my heart from sin,
And—ev’ry moment ev’ry hour—
To live Thy life within.
| Text Information | |
|---|---|
| First Line: | Lord, how can one so vile |
| Title: | My Only Hope |
| Author: | Jessie F. Moser |
| Language: | English |
| Publication Date: | 1929 |
| Copyright: | 1928 by Gordon E. Hooker |
| Notes: | Now Public Domain. |
| Tune Information | |
|---|---|
| Name: | [Lord, how can one so vile] |
| Composer: | Gordon E. Hooker |
| Copyright: | 1928 by Gordon E. Hooker |
| Notes: | Now Public Domain. |
| Media | |
|---|---|
| MIDI file: |  MIDI |
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