Fighting with sin for me,
And when my heart loves God I know
The sweetness is from Thee.
THE TUNE.
“Audientes” by Sir Arthur Sullivan is a gentle, emotional piece, rendering the first quatrain of each stanza in E flat unison, and the second in C harmony.
“TIS RELIGION THAT CAN GIVE.”
This simple rhyme, which has been sung perhaps in every Sunday-school in England and the United States, is from a small English book by Mary Masters. In the preface to the work, we read, “The author of the following poems never read a treatise of rhetoric or an art of poetry, nor was ever taught her English grammar. Her education rose no higher than the spelling-book or her writing-master,”
'Tis religion that can give
Sweetest pleasure while we live;
'Tis religion can supply