There's an eye watching you

I read recently about an American called John M Henson. Back in the forties he was in a church that was having special meetings including some for kids. Some of the kids had been rather rowdy and so the leader was warning them one night that they needed to be careful as there was an all seeing eye watching them. Now the leader meant the local sheriff who he had spotted but it made Henson think higher – of Gods all seeing eye. Henson was very musical and a prolific song writer. It prompted his most famous hymn

All along on the road to the soul's true abode, There’s an Eye watching you;
Ev’ry step that you take this great Eye is awake, There’s an Eye watching you.
Watching you, watching you, Ev’ry day mind the course you pursue;
Watching you, watching you, There’s an all-seeing Eye watching you.

2 As you make life’s great fight, keep the pathway of right, There’s an Eye watching you;
God will warn not to go in the path of the foe, There’s an Eye watching you. ….

3 Fix your mind on the goal, that sweet home of the soul, There’s an Eye watching you;
Never turn from the way to the kingdom of day, There’s an Eye watching you.