Worship — Holy Scriptures
What is the chaff, the word of man
- No. 189
- Words Isaac Watts.
- Singing key E♭ major
- 3 stanzas
Sung to LITCHFIELD (hymn 201)
Words
⤢ Full screenWhat is the chaff, the word of man,When set against the wheat?Can it a dying soul sustainLike that immortal meat?
Thy word, O God, with heavenly breadThy children doth supply;And those who by thy word are fed,Their souls shall never die.
'T is like a field where hidden liesThe pearl of price unknown,And he indeed is truly wiseWho makes this pearl his own.
About this hymn
As printed Words only. As printed: hymn number «189» (large) with the reference line «201, 227, 183.» in italics beside it (sing to the tune of hymn 201, 227 or 183); the hymn heads the right column of p. 65, stanzas 1–3, «Isaac Watts.» in italics at the end (the final period faint on this exemplar). The first word «WHAT» is set in capitals and small capitals. The print sets a thin space before «?» and «;» («wheat ?», «supply ;»); it is closed up here. The printer's curly apostrophe is written straight («'T is»). Lines 2 and 4 of each stanza are indented in the print. Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's. No meter is printed (the text is C. M., 8.6.8.6).
- Source
- The Seventh-day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book (Battle Creek: Review & Herald, 1886/1888)
- Where
- Worship — Holy Scriptures · No. 189 · printed page 65
- Music
- The hymnal prints no music for this hymn; its words are set here to the music of this tune.
- Checked
- lyrics verified · 2026-09-30
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