Better be wise among the few,
Than with the many stray,
Than a mad multitude pursue
Down the destructive way:
While millions blind in sin rush on,
Like Lot in Sodom dwell,
And rather go to heaven alone,
Than with a world to hell.
Better be wise among the few
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil.’—[Exod.] 23:2.” This hymn appears in the 1783 manuscript “MS Scriptural Hymns.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/576, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 52.
Publishing: Public Domain