Take Time To Be Holy
- Words:
- W. D. Longstaff
- Music:
- George C. Stebbins
Sheet music
- 1Take time to be holy,Speak oft with thy Lord;Abide in Him always,And feed on His Word;Make friends of God’s children;Help those who are weak;Forgetting in nothingHis blessing to seek.
- 2Take time to be holy,The world rushes on;Spend much time in secretWith Jesus alone;By looking to Jesus,Like Him thou shalt be;Thy friends in thy conductHis likeness shall see.
- 3Take time to be holy,Let Him be thy Guide;And run not before Him,Whatever betide;In joy or in sorrow,Still follow thy Lord;And, looking to Jesus,Still trust in His Word.
- 4Take time to be holy,Be calm in thy soul;Each tho’t and each motiveBeneath His control;Thus led by His SpiritTo fountains of love,Thou soon shalt be fittedFor service above.
In the hymnals
- The words are in 390 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.