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PLEASANT
HILL.
C.
M.
D.
Baptist
Harmony
p.
273.
"Therefore
shall
ye
keep
my
commandments,
and
do
them."
Lev.
22-31.
Key
of
E
Major.
M.
L.
Nicholson.
Re
-
lig
-
ion
is
the
chief
con
-
cern
Of
mor
-
tals
here
be
-
low
1.
May
I
its
great
im
-
por-tance
learn,
Its
sov
-
ereign
vir
-
tues
know.
More
need
-
ful
2.
Re
-
lig
-
ion
should
our
thonghts
en-gage
A-
midst
our
youth
-
ful
bloom;
Twill
fit
us
for
de-
clin
-
ing
age
And
for
the
aw
-
ful
tomb.
O
may my
Let
deep
re
-
pent
-
ance,
faith,
and
love,
Be
join'd
with
God
-
ly
fear;
And
all
my
con
-
ver
-
sa
-
tion
prove,
My
heart
to
be
sin
-
cere.
Pre
-
serve
me
this
than
glit'-ring
wealth,
Or
aught
the
world
be
-
stows;
Nor
rep
-
u
-
ta
-
tion,
food,
or
health,
Can
give
us
such
re-pose.
heart,
by
grace
re-newe'd,
Be
my
Re
-
deem-er's
throne
And
be
my
stub
-
born
will
sub
-dued,
His
gov
-
ern
-
ment
to-
own.
from
the
snares
of
sin
Through
my
re
-
main-ing
days,
And
in
me
let
each
vir
tue
shine,
to
my
Re - deem
ers's
praise.
The
tune
appears
in
the
"Sacred
Harp"
from
1844,
and
has
been
printed
in
many
of
the
old
song
books.
"Southern
Harmony,
by
William
Walker,"
1835,
page
167,
"Social
Harp,
by
John
G.
McCurry,"
page
180,
1855,
in
the
New
Harp
of
Columbia,
by
M.
L.
Swan;
he
gives
credit
to
Nicholson
for
the
music
of
this
tune.
The
words
of
the
above
hymn
appear
in
"Loyd's
Hymn
Book
by
Benjamin
Loyd,"
title
to
the
hymn
being
"Inward
Religion."
It
has
seven
verses,
only
six
in
the
tune
as
it
ap-
appears
here.
No
authors
name
is
given.