The Voice of Praise: a collection of hymns for the use of the Methodist Church 374. What is the thing of greatest price

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The Voice of Praise‎#374

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Text:	What is the thing of greatest price
Author:	Montgomery

1 What is the thing of greatest price,
The whole creation round?--
That which was lost in Paradise,
That which in Christ is found.

2 The soul of man--Jehovah's breath--
That keeps two worlds at strife;
Hell moves beneath to work its death,
Heaven stoops to give it life.

3 And is this treasure borne below,
In earthen vessels frail?
Can non its utmost value know,
'Till flesh and spirit fail?

4 Then let us gather round the cross,
That knowledge to obtain;
Not by the soul's eternal loss,
But everlasting gain.

Text Information
First Line:	What is the thing of greatest price
Author:	Montgomery
Meter:	C. M.
Publication Date:	1873
Scripture:	Isaiah 66:2
Topic:	The Christian System: Creation and Fall of Man; The Value of the Soul