Veneration
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Veneration
- From Sacred Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1891. 20th edition, Liverpool, 1890.
- Hymn No. 326, page 392
Lyrics:
- How have the nations grown corrupt!
- How from their natural use,
- Men their life-giving powers pervert
- By wanton, lewd abuse.
- The holy ties of wedded life,
- Are cloaks for the profane,
- While lust and mammon desecrate,
- Where faith and love should reign.
- Adult'rers gain the world's applause,
- As men of honored fame;
- Women, though weak, defenceless, pure,
- Are branded with the shame.
- Is there no hope? There is! While men
- Rush on from bad to worse,
- Jehovah speaks, lest all the earth
- Be smitten with a curse; --
- He, who one talent has abused,
- Hear it! ye sons of men,
- Shall lose it, and it shall be given
- To him who improves ten.
- "Through him who holds the sealing power,
- Ye faithful ones, who heed
- Celestial laws, take many wives,
- And rear a righteous seed.
