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Text:Why do we waste on trifling cares
Author:Philip Doddridge
Tune:BERA
Composer:John E. Gould

391. Why do we waste on trifling cares

1 Why do we waste on trifling cares
That life which God's compassion spares,
While in the various range of thought,
The one thing needful is forgot?

2 Shall God invite us from above?
Shall Jesus urge his dying love?
Shall troubled conscience give us pain?
And all these please unite in vain?

3 Not so our eyes will always view
Those objects which we now pursue;
Not so will heaven and hell appear,
When death's decisive hour is near.

4 Almighty God, thy grace impart;
Fix deep conviction on each heart;
Nor let us waste on trifling care
That life which thy compassion spares.

Text Information
First Line: Why do we waste on trifling cares
Author: Philip Doddridge
Publication Date: 1886
Topic: The Sinner: Warning and Invitation
Tune Information
Name: BERA
Composer: John E. Gould
Meter: L. M.
Key: E♭ Major
Notes: Alternate tunes: 215, 108, or 136.



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