Introduction
Words: Fanny Crosby, in Little Pilgrim Songs, edited by Mrs. Wilbur F. Crafts & Hubert P. Main (New York: Biglow & Main, 1883), number 34.
Music: First Commandment W. Howard Doane (🔊 pdf nwc).
You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
Deuteronomy 5:7–8
Words: Fanny Crosby, in Little Pilgrim Songs, edited by Mrs. Wilbur F. Crafts & Hubert P. Main (New York: Biglow & Main, 1883), number 34.
Music: First Commandment W. Howard Doane (🔊 pdf nwc).
Father, lead Thy little children
Very early to Thy throne;
We will have no gods before Thee;
Thou art God, and Thou alone.
Refrain
Lead, O lead Thy little children
Very early to Thy throne;
We will have no gods before Thee;
Thou art God, and Thou alone.
In the Bible Thou hast taught us
All our thoughts to Thee are known;
Thou canst see us in the darkness;
Thou art God, and Thou alone.
Refrain
Though the heathen bow to idols,
They have made of wood and stone,
We have Christian friends to tell us
Thou art God, and Thou alone.
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Thou dost give us all our comforts,
Everything we call our own
Comes from Thee, our heav’nly Father;
Thou art God, and Thou alone.
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