Lyrics
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1. Should you feel inclined to censureFaults you may in others view,Ask your own heart, ere you venture,If you have not failings, too.Let not friendly vows be broken;Rather strive a friend to gain.Many words in anger spokenFind their passage home again.
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2. Do not, then, in idle pleasureTrifle with a brother’s fame;Guard it as a valued treasure,Sacred as your own good name.Do not form opinions blindly;Hastiness to trouble tends;Those of whom we thought unkindlyOft become our warmest friends.
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Text: Anon., ca. 1863Music: Philip Paul Bliss, 1838–1876
- Book
- Hymnal
- Hymn Number
- 235
- Music
- Philip Paul Bliss, 1838–1876.
- Text
- Anon.
- Scriptures
- Matthew 7:1–2, Doctrine and Covenants 88:124
- Meter
- 8 7 8 7 D
- Topic
- Judging, Self-Improvement, Speech
- Tune
- Lower Lights