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MISSION.
L.
M.
D.
Baptist
Harmony,
p.
266.
"Rejoice.
O
young
man.
in
thy
youth;
and
let
thy
heart
cheer
thee
in
the
days
of
thy
youth."
Ecc.
11-9
A.
Gramling,
1830.
Key
of
G.
Major.
Alto
by S.
M.
Denson,
1911,
1.
Young
peo -
ple,
all
at
-
ten
-
tion
give,
While
I
ad
-
dress
you
in
God's
name,
You
who
in
sin
and
fol
-
ly
live,
Come
hear
the
coun
-
sel
of
a
friend,
I'
ve
sought
for
bliss
in
glit'
-
ring
toys
2.
He
spake
at
once
my
sins
for
-
giv'n,
And
wash'd
my
load
of
guilt
a
-
way;
He
gave
me
glo
-
ry,
peace,
and
heav'n,
And
thus
I
found
the
heav'
-
ly
way,
And
now
with
tremb-ling
sense
I
view
3.
Youth,
like
the
spring,
will
soon
be
gone,
By
fleet
-
ing
time
or
conqu'
ring
death;
Your
morn-ing
sun
may
set
at
noon,
And
leave
you
ev
-
er
in
the
dark.
Your
spark-ling
eyes
and
bloom-ing
cheeks
4.
Ye
heed
-
less
ones,
that
wild
-
ly
stroll,
The
grave
will
soon
be
-
come
your
bed,
Where
si
-
lenoe
reigns,
and
va
-
pours
roll
In
sol
-
emn
dark
-
ness
round
your
head.
Your
friends
will
pass
the
lone-some
place,
And
ranged
the
lur
-
ing
scenes
of
vice;
But
nev
-
er
knew
sub
-
stan
-
tial
joys,
Un
-
til
I
heard
my
Sa-viours
voice.
The
bil
-
lows
roll
be
-
neath
your
feet,
For.
death
e
-
ter
-
nal
waits
for
you,
Who
slight
the
force
of
gos
-
pel
truth
Must
with
-
er
like
the
blast
-
ed
rose;
The
cof-fin,
earth,
and
wind
-
ing
sheet
Will
soon
your
ac
-
tive
limbs
en
-
close
And
with
a
sigh
move
slow
a
-
long;
Still
gaz-ing
on
the
spires
of
grass,
With
which
your
graves
are
o
-
ver
grown.
The
above
tune
is
credited
to
A.
Grambling
in
Baptist
Harmony,
page
266,
from
which
book
it
was
originally
taken
and
placed
in
the
"Sacred Harp"
of
1844,
and
has
been
published
all
along
in
the
"Sacred
Harp"
from
that
time
to
1869,
in
each
revision
thereof.
See
"Southern
Harmony,"
page
96;
also
201
"Christian
Har-
mony
by
William
Walker."
He
says
this
tune
was
composed
by
"Rev.
A.
Grambling,
Spartanburg,
S.
C.
We
have
been
unable
to
find
out
any-
thing
further
of
Mr.
Grambling.
The
words
in
the
above
tune
appear
in
"Loyd's
Hymn
Book,"
120,
in
Mercer's
Cluster,
146.
The
title
to
the
hymn
is
"Solem
Address
to
Young
People,"
See
"Zion
Songster,"
page
201.