Bible Songs — Scriptures, Law, Sabbath

Blessed are They that Do

Not one single jot or tittle—

No. 1304
Tune BLESSED ARE THEY THAT DO.
Words F. E. B.
Music F. E. Belden.
Key G major
Time 4/4
4 stanzas

Words

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Not one single jot or tittle—Hear the great Teacher say—From my Father's ten commandmentsEver shall pass away.

They shall gain the golden city,Dwell on the earth made new,Who have kept the ten commandments,Owning the Saviour too.

They shall drink of life's pure river,Sorrow and sighing o'er;Eat of life's fair tree forever,Never to hunger more.

Would you be among the numberJesus will honor then?Faith in him can only save youHeeding the precepts ten.

Chorus.

Blessed are they, blessed are they,Blessed are they that do;Blessed are they, blessed are they:Can it be said of you?

*Use in D. C. to stanzas 2 and 4, in place of "exalt."

About this hymn

As printed As printed: no running head on p. 515 (the page opens with the hymn); hymn number «1304» (large, left), title «Blessed are They that Do.» centred (condensed capitals and small capitals: «B», «T», «D» full capitals) — the same title as hymn 1303 on the facing page, with other words and music; under it two epigraphs in roman, each with its first line indented: «"Blessed are they … into the city."—Rev. 22 : 14.» and «"Think not that I am come … in the kingdom of heaven."—Matt. 5 : 17–19.» (old-style figures; «* * *» marking the omission; the words «least» (second occurrence), «do», «teach» and «great» in italics; «com-mandments» divided at a line end, joined here); on the next line «F. E. B.» at the left (words) and «F. E. BELDEN.» at the right (music), in capitals and small capitals. No meter, no tune name other than the title, no reference line. All four stanzas are interlinear, numbered «1.»–«4.», between the staves of systems 1–2 (up to «Fine.»); «CHORUS.» (bold capitals) stands over system 3, and the chorus words are printed once, under systems 3–4. Under the bass staff of systems 1–2, in italics, the words sung after the «D. C.» (from the beginning to «Fine.»): «D. C.—Who-so - ev - er shalt ex - alt them, Teach-ing men so to do, / Him will I ex - alt in heav - en: Do you be - lieve it true?»; one line lower, under each «ex - alt», in italics: «*de - ny». Under the music, at the left, the footnote «*Use in D. C. to stanzas 2 and 4, in place of "exalt."»; centred under it: «Copyrighted 1886 by F. E. Belden.» (the year blotted in this copy). Each printed line of words carries two verse lines; they are given here one verse line per line. The words divided under the notes are joined here («sin-gle», «tit-tle», «Teach-er», «gold-en», «cit-y», «riv-er», «Sor-row», «sigh-ing», «a-mong», «num-ber», «Je-sus», «hon-or», «Fa-ther's», «for-ev-er», «on-ly», «Ev-er», «a-way», «Own-ing», «Sav-iour», «Nev-er», «hun-ger», «Heed-ing», «pre-cepts», «Bless-ed», «Who-so-ev-er», «ex-alt», «Teach-ing», «heav-en», «be-lieve», «de-ny») — the divisions are in `lyrics_syllables.txt`. The print sets a thin space before «;», «:» and «?» («o'er ;», «then ?», «heav - en :», «true ?», «they :», «you ?»); it is closed up here; the curly apostrophes are written straight («life's», «Father's», «o'er»). Spelling («Saviour», «shalt»), capitals and punctuation are the print's.