Latter-Day Saints Congregational Hymns ‎#73

73. Should You Feel Inclined to Censure

1. Should you feel inclin’d to censure
Faults you may in others view,
Ask your own heart, ere you venture,
If that has not failings too.
Let not friendly vows be broken;
Rather strive a friend to gain;
Many a word in anger spoken
Find its passage home again.

2. Do not, then, in idle pleasure,
Trifle with a brother’s fame;
Guard it as a valued treasure,
Sacred as your own good name.
Do not form opinions blindly;
Hastiness to trouble tends;
Those of whom we tho’t unkindly,
Oft become our warmest friends.

Text Information

• First Line: Should you feel inclin'd to censure
• Title: Should You Feel Inclined to Censure
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1919

Tune Information

• Name: [Should you feel inclin'd to censure]
• Composer: P. P. Bliss
• Incipit: 56532 17666 21712
• Key: A♭ Major