My Precious Bible
- Words:
- E. B. Lorenz
- Music:
- E. B. Lorenz
Sheet music
- 1Like a star in the morning in its beauty,Like a Sun is the Bible to my soul,Shining clear on the way of love and duty,As I hasten on my journey to the goal.Holy Bible! my precious Bible!(Holy Bible! Holy Bible! precious Bible, book divine!)Gift of God and lamp of life,My beautiful Bible!(Bible, thou art mine!)I will cling to the dear, old Holy Bible,As I hasten to the City of the King.
- 2’Tis a light in the wilderness of sorrow,And a Lamp on the weary pilgrim way;And it guides to the bright, eternal morrow,Shining more and more unto the perfect day.Holy Bible! my precious Bible!(Holy Bible! Holy Bible! precious Bible, book divine!)Gift of God and lamp of life,My beautiful Bible!(Bible, thou art mine!)I will cling to the dear, old Holy Bible,As I hasten to the City of the King.
- 3It shall stand in its beauty and its glory,When the earth and the heavens pass away;Ever telling the blessed, wondrous storyOf the loving Lamb, the only Living Way.Holy Bible! my precious Bible!(Holy Bible! Holy Bible! precious Bible, book divine!)Gift of God and lamp of life,My beautiful Bible!(Bible, thou art mine!)I will cling to the dear, old Holy Bible,As I hasten to the City of the King.
In the hymnals
- Written in 1925, the words are in 2 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music and words are from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.