Hymnal: The Hartford Selection of Hymns from the Most Approved Authors #CXXVI (1799) Meter: 8.6.8.6 First Line: Sight, hearing, felling, taste and smell Lyrics: 1 Sight, hearing, feeling, taste and smell,
Are gifts we highly prize;
But these may downward lead to hell,
While faith to heav'n doth rise.
2 More piercing than the eagle's sight,
Faith views the world unknown:
Surveys the glorious realms of light,
And JESUS on the throne.
3 It hears the mighty voice of GOD,
And ponders what he saith;
His word and works, his gifts and rod,
Have each a voice to faith.
4 It feels the touch of heav'nly pow'r,
And from the boundless source,
Derives fresh vigour ev'ry hour
To run its daily course.
5 The truth and goodness of the LORD
Are suited to its tasks;
Mean is the worldling's pamper'd board,
To faith's perpetual feast.
6 Till saving faith possess the mind,
In vain of sense we boast;
We are but senseless, tasteless, blind,
And deaf, and dead, and lost. Topics: Faith Superior ot sense; Faith Superior ot sense Languages: English
Faith superior to Sense