Hail, thou agonizing Saviour,
Bearer of our sin and shame!
By Thy merits we find favor;
Life is given through Thy name.
2. Jesus, hail! enthroned in glory,
There forever to abide;
All the heavenly hosts adore Thee,
Seated at Thy Father's side:
There for sinners Thou art pleading;
There Thou dost our place prepare:
Ever for us interceding,
Till in glory we appear.
3. Worship, honor, power, and blessing
Thou art worthy to receive;
Loudest praises, without ceasing,
Meet it is for us to give.
Help, ye bright angelic spirits;
Bring your sweetest, noblest lays;
Help to sing our Saviour's merits;
Help to chant Immanuel's praise.
1. HARK! the voice of love and mercy Sounds aloud from Calvary;
See! it rends the rocks asunder,
Shakes the earth, and vails the sky:
"It is finished!"
Hear the dying Saviour cry.
It is finished!" Oh! what pleasure
Do these charming words afford!
Heavenly blessings, without measure,
Flow to us through Christ, the Lord:
"It is finished!"
Saints! the dying words record.
3. Tune your harps anew, ye seraphs!
Join to sing the pleasing theme;
All in earth and heaven, uniting,
Join to praise Immanuel's name;
Hallelujah!
Glory to the bleeding Lamb!
1. GOD the Lord a King remaineth,
Robed in His own glorious light;
God hath robed Him, and He reigneth-
He hath girded Him with might:
Hallelujah!
God is King in depth and height.
2. Lord! the water-floods have lifted,
Ocean-floods have raised their roar,
Now they pause where they have drifted,
Now they burst upon the shore:
Hallelujah!
From the ocean's sounding store.
3. With all tones of waters blending
Glorious is the breaking deep;
Glorious, beauteous without ending,
God who reigns on heaven's high steep.
Hallelujah!
Songs of ocean never sleep.
4. Lord! the words Thy lips are telling
Are the perfect verity;
Of Thine high, eternal dwelling
Holiness shall inmate be:
Hallelujah!
Pure is all that lives with Thee.
1. THAT day of wrath! that dreadful day,
When heaven and earth shall pass away!
What power shall be the sinner's stay?
How shall he meet that dreadful day?
2. When, shrivelling like a parched scroll,
The flaming heavens together roll;
When, louder yet, and yet more dread,
Swells the high trump that wakes the dead.
3. O, on that day, that dreadful day,
When man to judgment wakes from clay,
Be thou, O God, the sinner's stay,
Though heaven and earth shall pass away.
1. GoD of eternity, from Thee
Did infant Time its being draw;
Moments, and days, and months, and years,
Revolve, by Thine unvaried law.
2. Silent and slow, they glide away;
Steady and strong the current flows,
Lost in eternity's wide sea-
The boundless gulf from whence it rose.
3. With it the thoughtless sons of men Before the rapid stream are borne On to that eyerlasting home,
Whence not one soul can e'er return.
4. Great Source of wisdom, teach my heart
To know the price of every hour,
That time may bear me on to joys
Beyond its measure and its power.
1. BEHOLD a Stranger at the door!
He gently knocks, has knocked before;
Has waited long-is waiting still;
You treat no other friend so ill.
2. Oh! lovely attitude-He stands
With melting heart, and loaded hands;
Oh! matchless kindness-and He shows
This matchless kindness to His foes!
3. But will He prove a friend indeed?
He will-the very Friend you need;
The Friend of sinners-yes, 't is He,
With garments dyed on Calvary.
4. Rise, touched with gratitude divine,
Turn out His enemy and thine,
That soul-destroying monster, sin-
And let the heavenly Stranger in.
5. Admit Him, ere His anger burn-
His feet, departed, ne'er return;
Admit Him-or the hour 's at hand,
You'll at His door rejected stand.
1. COME hither, all ye weary souls!
Ye heavy-laden sinners! come!
I'll give you rest from all your toils,
And raise you to My heavenly home.
2. "They shall find rest who learn of Me—
I'm of a meek and lowly mind;
But passion rages like the sea,
And pride is restless as the wind.
3. "Blessed is the man, whose shoulders take
My yoke, and bear it with delight;
My yoke is easy to his neck,
My grace shall make the burden light.
4. Jesus! we come at Thy command;
With faith, and hope, and humble zeal,
Resign our spirits to Thy hand,
To mold and guide us at Thy will.
1. COME, children, drink the balmy dew,
For Christ hath shed His blood for you,
That blood can cleanse the vilest soul-
O see the purple torrent roll!
2. Behold the Lamb on Calvary,
He sighs, and groans, and dies for thee;
The rocks are rent, the sleeping dead
Awake because their Jesus bled.
3. Behold the body in the tomb,
The soldiers watching in the gloom;
But angels come, at dawn of day,
And bear the Lord of life away.
4. Behold Him rise from Olive's brow,
The clouds His form are hiding now;
He's gone to stand before the throne,
And pray forever for His own.
5. Yet see the sign among the stars,
One like the Son of Man appears :
Now all the tribes of Israel mourn,
To see the Crucified return.
6. Come, sinner, drink the balmy dew,
And let that blood avail for you,
Then say when His bright hour you see,
"It is my Lord, He comes for me."
1. COME, weary souls! with sins distress'd,
Come, and accept the promised rest;
The Saviour's gracious call obey,
And cast your gloomy fears away.
2. Here mercy's boundless ocean flows,
To cleanse your guilt and heal your woes;
Pardon, and life, and endless peace-
How rich the gift, how free the grace!
3. Dear Saviour! let Thy powerful love
Confirm our faith-our fears remove;
Oh! sweetly reign in every breast,
And guide us to eternal rest.
1. LIFE is the time to serve the Lord,
The time to insure the great reward;
And while the lamp holds out to burn,
The vilest sinner may return.
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