Page 103
SUFFIELD.
C.
M.
"
Lord,
make
me
to
know
mine
end,
and
the
measure
of
my
days,
what
it
is;
that
I
may
know
how
frail
I
am."-Ps.
39:
4,
ISAAC
WATTS,
1719.
Key
of
E
Minor.
Psalmist,
1055th
Hymn.
1.
Teach
me
the
measure
of
my
days,
Thou
Mak
-
er
of
my
frame,
I
would
sur-vey
life's
nar-row
space,
And
learn
how
frail
I
am.
2
A
span
is
all
that
we
can
boast,
An
inch
or
two
of
time;
Man
is
but
vanity
and
dust,
In
all
his
flower
and
prime.
3
What
should
I
wish,
or
wait
for
there,
From
creatures,
earth
and
dust
?
They
make
our
expectations
vain.
And
disappoint
our
trust.
4
Now
I
forbid
my
carnal
hope,
My
fond
desire
recall;
I
give
my
mortal
interest
up,
And
make
my
God
my
all.
See
other
sketches
of
Isaac
Watts
in
this
book.
There
was
originally
six
stanzas
in
this
hymn.
It
has
been
printed
in
many
hymn
books
since
it
was
compiled
in
1719.
The
tune
suffiled
is
an
old
melody.
See
early
tune
books
in
the
19th
century,
and
also
the
"Southern
Harmony"
in
1835,
page
31,
and
"Missouri
Harmony"
in
1837.
John
Wveth's
"
Repository
of
Music,"
1810,
page
19.
THE
MIDNIGHT
CRY.
7,
6,
7,
6,
7,
6,
7,
7.
"And
at
midnight
there
was
a
cry
made,
behold
the
bridegroom
cometh
;
go
ye
out
to
meet
him."-MATT.
25:
6.
Key
of
A
Major.
Baptist
Harmony,
p.
483.
Alto
by
S.
M.
DENSON,
1911.
1.
When
the
midnight
cry
began,
O
what
Iam-en-ta-tion,
Thonsands
sleeping
in
their
sins, Neglecting
their
salvation,
}
Lo, the
bridegroom
is
at
hand,
Sure-ly
all
the
waiting
band
Who
will
kindly
treat
him
?
Will
now
go
forth
to
meet
him.
2. Some, indeed, did
wait
a
while,
shone
without
a
rival;
But
they
spent
their
seeming
oil
Long
since
last
revival. }
Many
souls
who
thought
they'd
light,
Now
against
the
bridegroom
fight,
Oh, when
scene
was
closed,
And
so
they
stand
opposed.
This
tune
was
originally
taken
from
the
"Baptist
Harmony,"
page
483,
it
also
appears
in
the
"Southern
Harmony"
of
Wm.
Walker,
1835,
page
32
as
well
as
other
older
books.
It
has
ten
verses
in
"
Southern
Harmony."
None
of
the
books
we
can
get
hold
of
give
the
name
of
the
author
of
the
music.
It
is
an
old
tune
and
has
been
in
use
for
100
years.