The Word of Wisdom by Miss Eliza K. Snow

"For to one is given by the spirit, the word of wisdom ." 1 st. Cor. 12:8.

The Lord imparted from above It is a straight and narrow way,

The word of wisdom for our blessing? That leads to the Celestial City:

But shall it unto many prove That high taught saints should go astray,

A gift that is not worth possessing? Thro' gentile customs, is a pitty [pity].

Have we not been divinely taught, O: that the saints would all regard

To heed its voice and highly prize it? Each gracious word that God has given

Then who shall once indulge the thought And prize the favor of the Lord

It can be better to dispise [despise] it? Above all things beneath the heaven.

Has self denial grown a task?

Or has that word been vainly spoken,

Or why, I fain would humbly ask,

Why is that word, so often broken.