Bible Songs — Scriptures, Law, Sabbath

The Faithful Three

Look upon the golden image,

No. 1311
Tune THE FAITHFUL THREE.
Words F. E. Belden.
Music F. E. Belden.
Key C major
Singing key B♭ major
Time 2/4
4 stanzas

Words

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Look upon the golden image,Hear the king's decree;See the burning fiery furnace,And the faithful three.

'Twas a heathen king's commandmentGoverned conscience then;Yet how bravely for JehovahStood those noble men!

So when earthly creeds of errorBid you bend the knee,Turn and read the simple storyOf the faithful three.

God is able to deliverAs in days of old,All who walk the path of duty,Fearless, firm, and bold.

Chorus.

Stand for the right Where ever you may be,Trust in- the Lord, Like the faithful three.

D. C.—We will follow their example,Brave and faithful three,Bowing not before the imageAt the world's decree.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: no running head on p. 522 (the page opens with the hymn); hymn number «1311» (large, left), title «The Faithful Three.» centred (condensed capitals and small capitals); under it the epigraph in two lines of roman, «"Be it known nnto thee, O King, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up."—Dan. 13 : 8.» (old-style figures; «nnto» and «13 : 8» are as printed — see uncertainties.md); on the next line «F. E. BELDEN.» at the left (words) and «F. E. BELDEN.» at the right (music), both in capitals and small capitals; «Moderato.» in italics over the first system. 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 the chorus at the end of system 2, and the chorus words are printed once, under systems 2–3. Under the bass staff of systems 1–2, in italics, the words sung after the «D. C.» (from the beginning to «Fine.»): «D. C.—We will fol - low their ex - am-ple, Brave and faithful three, Bow-ing not be- / fore the im - age At the world's de - cree.» Under the music, centred: «Copyrighted 1886 by F. E. Beldan,» (as printed). Each printed line of words carries several verse lines; they are given here one verse line per line. The words divided under the notes are joined here («up-on», «gold-en», «im-age», «de-cree», «burn-ing», «fi-ery», «fur-nace», «faith-ful», «hea-then», «brave-ly», «Je-ho-vah», «no-ble», «earth-ly», «er-ror», «sim-ple», «sto-ry», «a-ble», «de-liv-er», «du-ty», «Fear-less», «fol-low», «ex-am-ple», «Bow-ing», «be-fore», «ev-er») — the divisions are in `lyrics_syllables.txt`. In the chorus the print has «Where» at the end of system 2 with no hyphen and «ev - er» at the start of system 3: given as printed, two words («Where ever»). The print has a hyphen after «in» in «Trust in- the Lord,» (no word division there): kept as printed. The print sets a thin space before «;» and «!» («de-cree ;», «then ;», «men !»); it is closed up here; the curly apostrophes are written straight («'Twas», «king's», «world's»). Spelling, capitals and punctuation are the print's.