How shall a young man cleanse his way

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How shall a young man cleanse his way

Author: James Hutton
Published in 8 hymnals

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	African-American Organ Music Anthology,…

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1 How shall a young man cleanse his way?
Let him with care Thy word observe.
With all my heart I have Thee sought;
From Thy commands let me not swerve.

2 Thy word I've treasured in my heart,
That I give no offence to Thee.
Thou, O Jehovah, blessed art;
Thy statues teach Thou unto me.

3 I with my lips have oft declared
The judgments which Thy mouth hath shown.
More joy Thy testimonies gave
Than all the riches I have known.

4 I'll on Thy precepts meditate,
And have respect to all Thy ways.
I in Thy statutes will delight,
Thy word remember all my days.

Source: Selected Psalms for Church Singing #39

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Author: James Hutton

James Hutton, son of a clergyman and cousin to Sir Isaac Newton, was born in London, Sept. 3, 1715, and followed for some years the trade of a bookseller. In 1739 he visited the Moravian settlement at Herrnbut, where he became acquainted with Count Zinzendorf. He retired from business in 1745, and was ordained a diaconus of the Moravian Church in 1749. He died May 3, 1795. He contributed several hymns to the Moravian Hymn Book, 1754. All his hymns were included in an Appendix to his Memoirs, published by Daniel Benham in 1856. --Dictionary of Hymnology, John Julian, 1907… Go to person page >

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First Line:	How shall a young man cleanse his way
Author:	James Hutton
Copyright:	Public Domain

Psalm 119:9-16
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Tune

MARYTON

After various tunes had been set to this text, Gladden insisted on the use of MARYTON. Composed by H. Percy Smith (b. Malta, 1825; d. Bournemouth, Hampshire, England, 1898), the tune was originally published as a setting for John Keble's "Sun of My Soul" in Arthur S. Sullivan's Church Hymns with Tun…

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