Should you feel inclined to censure
First line: Should you feel inclin’d to censure / Should you feel inclined to censure Faults you may / Should you feel inclined to censure
Original language: English
Words: Anon.
Music: Philip Paul Bliss
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Should you feel inclined to censure
Sacred Hymns (Manchester Hymnal)
(1840, 1912 ed.), 54
1. Should you feel inclined to censureFaults you may in others view,Ask your own heart, ere you venture,If that has not failings too.
2. Let not friendly vows be broken;Rather strive a friend to gain;Many a word in anger spokenFinds its passage home again.
3. Do not, then, in idle pleasure,Trifle with a brother’s fame,Guard it as a valued treasure,Sacred as your own good name.
4. Do not form opinions blindly;Hastiness to trouble tends,Those of whome we thought unkindly,Oft become our warmest friends.
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Tune: Lower Lights / Censure (by Philip Paul Bliss) (Return to top) Tune 235
Tune: Adora (by J. S. Bramwell) (Return to top) Tune 5028
Tune: Should You Feel Inclined to Censure (by George H. Durham) (Return to top) Tune 5185
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Should You Feel Inclined to Censure
Latter-Day Saints Congregational Hymns, Volume 1 (1919, 1919 ed.), 73