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BETHEL.
C.
M.
"And
Enoch
walked
with
God,
and
he
was
not,
for
God
took
him."-GEN.
5:
24.
WILLIAM
COWPER,
1779.
Key
of
F
Minor.
1.
O
for
a
clos
-
er
walk
with
God,
A
calm
and
heav'n
-
ly
frame,
2.
Where
is
the
bless
-
ed
-
ness
I
knew,
When
first
I
saw
the
Lord?
3.
What
peace
-
ful
hours
I
once
en
-
joyed!
How
sweet
their
mem
-
'ry
still!
4.
Re
-
turn,
O
ho
-
ly
Dove,
re
-
turn,
Sweet
mes
-
sen
-
ger
of
rest!
5.
The
dear
-
est
i
- dol
I
have
known,
What
-
e'er
that
i
-
dol
be,
6.
So
shall
my
walk
be
close
with
God,
Calm
and
se
-
rene
my
frame,
A
light
to
shine
up
-
on
the
road
That
leads
me
to
the
Lamb!
Where
is
the
soul
-
re
-
fresh
-
ing
view
Of
Je
-
sus
and
His
word
?
But
they
have
left
an
ach
-
ing
void
The
world
can
nev
-
er
fill.
I
hate
the
sins
that
made
thee
mourn,
And
drove
thee
from
my
breast.
Help
me
to
tear
it
from
Thy
throne,
And
wor
-
ship
on
-
ly
Thee.
So
pur
-
er
light
shall
mark
the
road
That
leads
me
to
the
Lamb.
William
Cowper
was
born
in
1731
and
died
in
1800.
He
was
a
co-worker
with
John
Newton.
Both
Newton
and
Cowper
were
left
motherless
at
an
early
age,
Newton
when
he
was
seven,
and
Cowper
when
he
was
six.
David
R.
Breed,
D.
D.,
in
his
work
on
the
"
History
and
Use
of
Hymns
and
Hymn
Tunes,"
says:
"
Newton
became
a
wild,
disbelieving
blasphemer;
Cowper
an
irresolute,
despairing,
would-be
suicide.
One
was
driven
to
Christ
by
the
violence
of
his
sins,
the
other
by
the
violence
of
his
sufferings.
Both,
therefore,
needed
the
grace
of
God,
sought
it,
found
it,
and
sang
of
it
to
the
ages
following."
Cowper
first
became
a
lawyer,
but
abandoned
it
after
a
brief
practice.
He
became
one
of
the
most
distinguished
poets
in
the
English
language
in
the
latter
half
of
the
eighteenth
century.
The
original
title
of
this
hymn
was
"Walking
With
God."
The
above
tune
was
first
published
in
America
by
Andrew
Law;
in
"
Missouri
Harmony,"
in
1837,
and
in
the
earlier
editions
of
Mason's
"
Sacred
Harp,"
in
1840,
and
in
many
other
tune
books.
Copyright,
1908,
by
J.S.James.