Hymnal: The Christian Hymn-Book
Date: 1815
Compiler: John Thompson et al
Publisher/Printer: Looker and Wallace
First Line: Jesus wher'er thy people meet
Topic: Supplication
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 47
Page Number: 042, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsJesus where'er thy people meet,
There they behold thy mercy seat;
Where'er they seek thee thou art found,
And every place is hallow'd ground.
For thou, within no walls confin'd,
Inhabitest the humble mind:
Such ever bring thee where they come,
And going take thee to their home.
Dear Shepherd of thy chosen few,
They former mercies here renew;
Here to our waiting hearts proclaim,
The sweetness of thy saving name.
Here may we prove the power of prayer,
To strengthen faith and sweeten care;
To teach our faint desires to rise,
And bring all heaven before our eyes.
Behold at thy commanding word,
We stretch the curtain and the cord;
Come thou, and fill this wider space,
And bless us with a large increase.
Lord, we are few, but thou art near;
Nor short thine arm, nor deaf thine ear,
Oh! Rend the heavens: come quickly down,
Make thousand thousand hearts thine own.