HEART AND HEARTHSTONE

1. How sweet the home of Nazareth Where Mary mother smiled, And flow’rs of daily duty bloom’d About the holy Child. His Father’s will was all His task Within that earthly home, That will for ever done in Heav’n Whence He so late had come. 2. Obedient, gentle, loving, meek, He worked at Joseph’s side; Does nothing from that daily toil Thro’ all the years abide? We scan the wide world o’er, nor find. In any clime or land, One single, sacred, treasured thing Wrought out by Jesus’ hand. 3. But wheresoe’er a Christian child Does on the earth fulfil.... With humble, rev’rent, tender heart The heav’nly Father’s will, The work, tho’ mean and poor to view With heav’nly grace is fraught, Since age to age it passes on The lesson Jesus taught.

Down in our lowly home All goes so well; All pleasures hither come To our sweet dell; Father so brave is here, Mother so kind and dear! Oh, in our lowly home All goes so well. Down by our fireside neat Love rules the hours Thro’ winter’s icy sleet And summer’s flow’rs. Children, a happy band, Kind words and gentle hand: Oh, by our fireside neat Love rules the hours. Why in our peaceful cot Goes all so well? Why here love faileth not Can any tell? Jesus abides within, Guarding from strife and sin. O Saviour, evermore Here with us dwell.