How Shall The Young Secure Their Hearts

Words:
Isaac Watts
Music:
S. M. Bixby

Sheet music

  1. 1How shall the young secure their hearts,And guard their lives from sin?Thy Word the choicest rules impartsTo keep the conscience clean,(To keep the conscience clean,)To keep the conscience clean.To keep the conscience clean.
  2. 2’Tis, like the sun, a heav’nly light,That guides us all the day;And, thru the dangers of the nightA lamp to lead our way,(A lamp to lead our way,)A lamp to lead our way.(A lamp to lead our way.)
  3. 3Thy Word is everlasting truth;How pure is ev’ry page!That holy book shall guide our youth,And well support our age,(And well support our age,)And well support our age.(And well support our age.)

In the hymnals

  • Written in 1719, the words are in 506 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →

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