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Text:Others
Author:Charles D. Meigs
Tune:[Lord, help me live from day to day]
Composer:Elizabeth M. Shields
Media:MIDI file

5375. Others

1. Lord, help me live from day to day
In such a self-forgetful way
That even when I kneel to pray
My prayer shall be for—Others.

Refrain
Others, Lord, yes others,
Let this my motto be,
Help me to live for others,
That I may live like Thee.

2. Help me in all the work I do
To ever be sincere and true
And know that all I’d do for You
Must needs be done for—Others. [Refrain]

3. Let Self be crucified and slain
And buried deep: and all in vain
May efforts be to rise again,
Unless to live for—Others. [Refrain]

4. And when my work on earth is done,
And my new work in Heav’n’s begun,
May I forget the crown I’ve won,
While thinking still of—Others. [Refrain]

Text Information
First Line: Lord, help me live from day to day
Title: Others
Author: Charles D. Meigs (1917)
Refrain First Line: Others, Lord, yes others
Language: English
Source: Con­se­crat­ed Hymns (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: Gei­bel & Leh­man, 1902)
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: [Lord, help me live from day to day]
Composer: Elizabeth M. Shields
Incipit: 54333 23447 66765
Key: E♭ Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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