Sight, hearing, feeling, taste and smell

The words

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   Stanza 1. Sight, hearing, feeling, taste and smell,Are gifts we highly prize;But faith does singly each excel,And all the five comprise.

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   Stanza 2. More piercing than the eagle’s flightIt views the world unknown;Surveys the glorious realms of light,And Jesus on the throne.

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   Stanza 3. It hears the mighty voice of God,And ponders what he saithHis word and works, his gifts and rod,Have each a voice to faith.

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   Stanza 4. It feels the touch of heavenly pow’r,And from that boundless source,Derives fresh vigor every hour,To run its daily course.

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   Stanza 5. The truth and goodness of the Lord,Are suited to its tasteMean is the worldling’s pampered board,To faith’s perpetual feast.

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   Stanza 6. It smells the dear Redeemer’s nameLike ointment poured forth;Faith only knows or can proclaim,Its favor or its worth.

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   Stanza 7. Till saving faith possess the mind,In vain of sense we boast;We are but senseless, tasteless, blind,And deaf, and dead, and lost.

Olney Hymns (1779), Book 3, Hymn 43. John Newton. Public domain. CCEL transcription with modernized spelling. www.praylock.com/olney-hymns/3-43