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Free same-meter accompaniment for Choosing the Better Part (Philip Doddridge): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) in four-part harmony, 4 verses, with the words on screen. Choose the key and speed, add an introduction, project the words on a TV, or practice your own choir part. Made for churches and home groups without a musician.
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- 1Beset with snares on every hand,
- In life’s uncertain path I stand:
- Saviour divine! diffuse Thy light,
- To guide my doubtful footsteps right.
- 2Engage this roving treacherous heart
- Wisely to choose the better part;
- To scorn the trifles of a day,
- For joys that none can take away.
- 3Then let the wildest storms arise;
- Let tempests mingle earth and skies:
- No fatal shipwreck shall I fear,
- But all my treasures with me bear.
- 4If Thou, my Jesus, still be nigh,
- Cheerful I live, and joyful die:
- Secure, when mortal comforts flee,
- To find ten thousand worlds in Thee.
About this music
OLD 100TH — Louis Bourgeois. Setting: Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalter, 1561.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from ccel from Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalter 1561. Words: "Hymnal and Canticles of the Protestant Episcopal Church", 1875, hymn 405.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Choosing the Better Part page.
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