The phrase "husks" resonates through 8 hymns, touching hearts across generations.
husks
...A resting place, a home.
Why delay to leave the husks on which your soul has fed?
Why refuse the gracious hand that holds the heav’nly bread?...
A resting place, a home.
Why delay to leave the husks on which your soul has fed?
Why refuse the gracious hand that holds the heav’nly bread?
...Are fed with heav’nly fare;
But these, the wretched husks they chew
Proclaim them what they are....
Are fed with heav’nly fare;
But these, the wretched husks they chew
Proclaim them what they are.
...Through His life I now am saved.
Feeding on the husks around me,
Till my strength was almost gone,...
Through His life I now am saved.
Feeding on the husks around me,
Till my strength was almost gone,
...Through His life I now am saved.
Feeding on the husks around me,
Till my strength was almost gone,...
Through His life I now am saved.
Feeding on the husks around me,
Till my strength was almost gone,
...Through His blood I now am saved.
Feeding on the husks around me,
Till my strength was almost gone,...
Through His blood I now am saved.
Feeding on the husks around me,
Till my strength was almost gone,
...Confess my wrong, His pardon seek,
And feed on husks no more.
Forsaken, friendless, clothed in rags,...
Confess my wrong, His pardon seek,
And feed on husks no more.
Forsaken, friendless, clothed in rags,
...He begs a share among the swine,
To taste the husks they eat!
I die with hunger here, he cries,...
He begs a share among the swine,
To taste the husks they eat!
I die with hunger here, he cries,
...Nor can your hungry souls sustain?
On ashes, husks, and air ye feed;
Ye spend your little all in vain....
Nor can your hungry souls sustain?
On ashes, husks, and air ye feed;
Ye spend your little all in vain.
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