O Man and Woman!

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O man and woman, maid and youth

Author: Charles Price Jones
Tune: PASTOR WILLIAMS
Published in 2 hymnals

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1 O man and woman, maid and youth,
Come, build your hopes on solid truth;
Trust not a base of sinking sand;
Build on the Rock, thy house to stand.

2 Be not of those whose vain display
Of grandeur lasteth but a day;
Dig deep and found upon the Rock;
Then thou canst stand the tempest's shock.

3 Build not with what will perish soon;
But silver, gold and precious stone
Use in thy building 'stead of hay;
There comes a burning judgment day.

4 Dig deep, build well, take time and see
That thine is solid piety,
That truth alone thy heart inspire;
Then do not dread the judgment fire.

Source: His Fullness Songs #96

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Author: Charles Price Jones

Charles Price Jones born December 9, 1865, near Rome, Georgia. He grew up in Kingston, Georgia, and attended the Baptist church. He was converted in 1884 while living in Cat Island, Arkansas. In 1885 he was called to the ministry and began preaching. In 1888 he attended Arkansas Baptist College and taught school in Grant County, Arkansas. He preached and pastored several Baptist churches. After asking God for a deeper experience of grace and fasting and praying for three days, Jones experienced a closeness with God, and in 1895, along with other Baptist holiness adherents, who taught that a second work of grace can cleanse the Christian of original sin. They started a holiness movement in the Baptist church, and he began teaching holiness i… Go to person page >

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