Page 399
NEW
HARMONY.
8s,
7s.
"For
in
him
we
live,
and
move,
and
have
our
being.
Acts,
17-28.
Key
of
G.
Major.
Arranged
by
Miss,
M.
L.
A.
Lancaster.
1859.
1.
I
want
to
live
a
Christian
here,
I
want
to
die
a
shout-ing,
I
want
to
feel
my
Sa
-
viour
near,
While
soul
and
bod
-
ey's
part
-
ing,
I
want
to
see
bright
An
-
gels
2.
My
heart
is
oft
-
en
made
to
mourn,
Be
-
cause
I'm
faint
and
fee
-
ble,
And
when
my
Sa
-
viour
seems
to
frown,
My
soul
is
fill'd
with
trou-ble.
But
when
he
doth
a
gain
re-
3.
I
have
my
bit
-
ter
and
my
sweet,
While
through
this
world
I
trav
-
el
Some
-
times
I
shout,
and
oft
-
en
weep;
Which
makes
my
foes
to
mar
-
vel.
But
let
them
think,
and
think
a-
stand
And
wait
-
ing
to
re
-
ceive
me,
To
bear
my
soul
to
Ca
-
naan's
land,
Where
Christ
is
gone
be-fore
me.
turn
And
I
re
-
pent
my
fol
-
ly;
'Tis
then
I
af
-
ter
glo
-
ry
run,
And
still
my
Je
-
sus
fol
-
low.
gain,
I
feel
I'm
bound
for
heav
-
en;
I
hope
I
shall
with
Je
-
sus
reign,
I
there-fore
still
will
praise
him.
We
have
added
more
verses,
1911,
to
this
hymn,
but
have
left
the
Ist
as
it
has
been
published
in
the
Sacred
Harp
by
Major
White,
it
is
the
last
verse
in
the
original
hymn.
See
Zion
Songster
by
Mason
1832,
page
196.
Original
hymn
has
4
verses.
Miss
M.
L.
A.
Lancaster,
author
of
New
Harmony,
was
a
member
of
the
Southern
Musical
Convention,
she
moved
to
Texas
before
the
civil
war.
She
was
a
fine
director
of
music,
and
her
two
sisters
who
have
compositions
in
this
volume,
Misses
Sarah
and
P.
R.
Lancaster
were
all
taught
music
by
Prof.
E.
T.
Pound
two
years
ago.
Sarah
was
still
alive
in
Texas,
the
other
two
are
dead.