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<h2>HOW PRECIOUS IS THE BOOK DIVINE</h2>
<p align="center"><h3>&#8220;Your Word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.&#8221; Psalm 119:105</h3></p>
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<td><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_f_a_fawcett_j.jpg" alt="John Fawcett (1740-1817)" width="139.333333333333" height="190"></td>
<td><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_f_a_fawcett_j.html" target="_blank">John Fawcett</a>, <em>Hymns Adapted to the Circumstances of Public Worship and Private Devotion</em> (Leeds, England: G. Wright &amp; Son, 1782).
<p><em>Music:</em> Fred C. Pullin, in <em>Sunday School Hymns No. 1</em> (Chicago, Illinois: Tullar-Meredith Company, 1903) </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_h_howpreci.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<p>How precious is the book divine,<br>
By inspiration giv&#8217;n;<br>
Bright as a lamp its pages shine<br>
To guide our souls to heav&#8217;n.<br>
Its light descending from above,<br>
Our gloomy world to cheer,<br>
Displays a Savior&#8217;s boundless love,<br>
And brings His glories near.</p>
<p class="refrain">Refrain</p>
<p class="refrain">Oh precious book of light and life<br>
Thou source of truth and love,<br>
In Thee we view God&#8217;s matchless grace,<br>
And all His goodness prove,<br>
Oh precious book whose light e&#8217;er shines<br>
With bright and cheering ray,<br>
To guide our souls until the dawn<br>
Of the eternal day.</p>
<p>It shows to man his wand&#8217;ring ways,<br>
And where his feet have trod;<br>
And brings to view the matchless grace<br>
Of a forgiving God.<br>
O&#8217;er all the straight and narrow way<br>
Its radiant beams are cast;<br>
A light whose never weary ray<br>
Grows brightest at the last.</p>
<p class="refrain">Refrain</p>
<p>It sweetly cheers our fainting hearts<br>
In this dark vale of tears;<br>
Life, light and joy it still imparts,<br>
And quells our rising fears.<br>
This lamp, through all the tedious night<br>
Of life, shall guide our way,<br>
Till we behold the clearer light<br>
Of an eternal day.</p>
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