Veneration

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.