Hymns for Devotional Hours by Edward Knowles

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 13, 1871

Hymns for Devotional Hours.

By Edward Knowles

Oh! for a purer love and life Than ever yet have been in me; When grace shall end the warring strife That keeps my soul, O God, from thee.

Thine is a nature pure and just, And cannot even look at sin; And I am humbled in the dust, When I reflect what I have been.

But the dead past is swept away, And with the present I must do; God, give grace equal to my day, And shut the world out from my view.

Kindle afresh the rising zeal, And melt my soul, till tears shall start And sinners all around me feel The warm pulsations of my heart.

—Edward Knowles.