Introduction
Words: Johnson Oatman, Jr., 1916.
Music: John B. Herbert (🔊 pdf nwc).
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What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Mark 8:36
Words: Johnson Oatman, Jr., 1916.
Music: John B. Herbert (🔊 pdf nwc).
If you know where to get a better photo of Oatman or Herbert,
Not all earth’s gold and silver
Can make a sinner whole;
What shall it profit thee, O man,
If thou should’st lose thy soul?
Refrain
What shall it profit a man,
What shall it profit a man,
If He gain the whole world,
And lose his own soul?
The heaping up of riches
To many seems life’s goal;
But in the eager rush for wealth,
Forgotten is the soul.
Refrain
This solemn question answer:
Is worldly gain thy goal?
Can fleeting riches be compared
To an immortal soul?
Refrain