View source for Ye Simple Souls Who Stray

=Tunes=
*''[[Martha (Stephens)|Martha]]'', by [[Evan Stephens]] (1854–1930)

=Lyrics=
*Poet: [[Charles Wesley]] (1707–1788), adapted
*Copyright: [[Public Domain]]
==Lyrics from [[A Collection of Sacred Hymns for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Europe, 1840]]==
Hymn 34<br>
[[S.M.D.]]<br>
Ye simple souls, that stray<br>
Far from the path of peace,<br>
(That lonely, unfrequented way<br>
To life and happiness,)<br>
Why will ye folly love,<br>
And throng the downward road,<br>
And hate the wisdom from above,<br>
And mock the sons of God?

Madness and misery<br>
Ye count our life beneath;<br>
And nothing great or good can see,<br>
Or glorious in our death:<br>
As only born to grieve,<br>
Beneath your feet we lie;<br>
And utterly contemned we live,<br>
And unlamented die.

So wretched and obscure,<br>
The men whom ye despise,<br>
So foolish, impotent, and poor,<br>
Above your scorn we rise:<br>
We, through the Holy Ghost,<br>
Can witness better things;<br>
For He, whose blood is all our boast,<br>
Hath made us Priests and Kings.

Riches unsearchable<br>
In Jesus' love we know;<br>
And pleasures, springing from the well<br>
Of life, our souls o'erflow;<br>
The Spirit we receive<br>
Of wisdom, grace, and power;<br>
And always sorrowful we live,<br>
Rejoicing evermore.

Angels our servants are,<br>
And keep in all our ways;<br>
And in their watchful hands they bear<br>
The sacred sons of grace;<br>
Unto that heavenly bliss<br>
They all our steps attend;<br>
And God himself our Father is,<br>
And Jesus is our Friend.

With him we walk in white;<br>
We in his image shine;<br>
Our robes are robes of glorious light,<br>
Our righteousness divine:<br>
On all the kings of earth<br>
With pity we look down;<br>
And claim, in virtue of our birth,<br>
A never-fading crown.

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