Lay your treasures higher, safer

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Lay your treasures higher, safer

Author: Henry B. Hartzler
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1 Lay your treasures higher, safer
Than the golden stores of men,
Lest the coming day of terror
Sweep them from your keeping then.
Ere the busy hands are idle,
Ere the beating heart is still,
Bring some treasures to the Masters,
As you learn his royal will. Yes,
Lay your treasures higher, safer
Than the golden stores of men,
Lest the coming day of terror
Sweep them from your keeping then.

2 Send aloft each blessed moment
In some noble use to God;
Make the world to feel your presence,
Ere you lie beneath the sod.
Deeds of mercy, tears of pity,
Words of tenderness and love,
How they shine for aye and ever
In the Treasure-House above. Yes,
Send aloft each blessed moment
In some noble use to God;
Make the world to feel your presence,
Ere you lie beneath the sod.

Source: The Evergreen: songs for the Sunday school, sanctuary and home circle #35

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Author: Henry B. Hartzler

Hartzler, Henry Burns. (York County, Pennsylvania, March 23, 1840--1920). Evangelical. Licensed 1869, pastor Trinity Church, York Penn., in 1873-1874; editor of The Messenger in 1870s and 1880s; taught Bible in Mt. Hermon school, Northfield, Massachusetts. Was associated with D.L. Moody. Went with the United Evangelical CHurch in the schism, was editor of its Evangel 1894-1902. Editor of and hymn-contributor to Evangelischer Gesangbuch and Hymn Book of the United Evangelical Church. Bishop of that denomination 1902-1910. Most famous hymn was "Go and seek the lost and dying." --Ellen Jane Lorenz, DNAH Archives Go to person page >

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