12296 | The Cyber Hymnal#12297 | 12298 |
Text: | The Safest Way |
Author: | Charles Hutchinson Gabriel |
Tune: | [The ways of the world may tempt you] |
Composer: | Charles Hutchinson Gabriel |
Media: | MIDI file |
1 The ways of the world may tempt you
With their glitter and glint of gold,
And its promises may allure you
As you watch its mirage unfold;
False prophets, the thieves of Satan,
Like vampires entice their prey;
But stick to your mother’s God:
Her way is the safest way.
2 The palace of sin and pleasure
May appeal to your heart’s desire,
For its music is strangely thrilling,
Like the strains of a golden lyre.
But, stop! Ere you cross its threshold,
Look back to your childhood’s day.
And stick to your mother’s God:
Her way is the safest way.
3 Her breast was your first warm pillow,
When she taught you to lisp His name;
Don’t dishonor that blessèd memory
With the teaching of modern shame.
Keep on in the dear old pathway!
Let others do as they may,
But stick to your mother’s God:
Her way is the safest way.
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First Line: | The ways of the world may tempt you |
Title: | The Safest Way |
Author: | Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (1917) |
Language: | English |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Notes: | Ethan Allen’s daughter lay dying. Her mother, a beautiful Christian character, had passed on before her. The daughter, calling her father to her bedside, said: Father, I am dying. Mother taught me to love the Lord Jesus, but you say there is no God. I love you and my sainted mother; I cannot have the faith of both; now, which shall I choose? The noted infidel took his dying child in his arms and said: Stick to your mother’s God! Her way is the safest way. Rodeheaver’s Sunday School Songs (Chicago, Illinois: Rodeheaver Company, circa 1917), p. 228. |
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Name: | [The ways of the world may tempt you] |
Composer: | Charles Hutchinson Gabriel |
Key: | G Major or modal |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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MIDI file: | MIDI |
Noteworthy Composer score: | Noteworthy Composer Score |