Who teach their children to admire
The pomp which earth displays,
And bid them from their birth aspire
To riches, power, and praise;
They blindly take the murtherer’s part,
To him their offspring sell,
Poison their unexperienc’d heart,
And train them up for hell.
Who teach their children to admire
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The devil taketh him into an exceeding high mountain and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world &c.’—Matt. 4, v. 8.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 156.
Publishing: Public Domain