Veneration

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Veneration

Lyrics:

How have the nations grown corrupt!
How from their natural use,
Men their life-giving powers pervert
By wanton, lewd abuse.
The holy ties of wedded life,
Are cloaks for the profane,
While lust and mammon desecrate,
Where faith and love should reign.
Adult'rers gain the world's applause,
As men of honored fame;
Women, though weak, defenceless, pure,
Are branded with the shame.
Is there no hope? There is! While men
Rush on from bad to worse,
Jehovah speaks, lest all the earth
Be smitten with a curse; --
He, who one talent has abused,
Hear it! ye sons of men,
Shall lose it, and it shall be given
To him who improves ten.
"Through him who holds the sealing power,
Ye faithful ones, who heed
Celestial laws, take many wives,
And rear a righteous seed.