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Text:My Only Hope
Author:Jessie F. Moser
Tune:[Lord, how can one so vile]
Composer:Gordon E. Hooker

36. My Only Hope

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.



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