The Sinner—Christ the Way of Life

1How help - less guilt - y na - ture lies,
Un - con - scious of its load!
The heart, unchanged, can nev - er rise
To hap - pi - ness and God.

2Can aught, beneath a power divine,
The stubborn will subdue?
'Tis thine, almighty Spirit! thine,
To form the heart anew.

3'Tis thine, the passions to recall,
And upward bid them rise;
To make the scales of error fall
From reason's darkened eyes.

4Oh change these wretched hearts of ours,
And give them life divine;
Then shall our passions and our powers,
Almighty Lord! be thine.