Hymnal: The Christian Hymn-Book
Date: 1829
Compiler: B W Stone and T Adams
Publisher/Printer: N L Finnell
First Line: Blest are the humble souls
Topic: Penitential
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 28
Page Number: 032, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsBlest are the humble souls that see
Their emptiness and poverty;
Treasures of grace to them are given,
And crowns of joy laid up in heaven.
Blest are the men of broken heart,
Who mourn for sin with inward smart;
The blood of Christ divinely flows,
A healing balm for all their woes.
Blest are the meek, who stand afar
From rage and passion, noise and war;
God will secure their happy state,
And plead their cause against the great.
Blest are the souls who thirst for grace,
Hunger and long for righteousness;
They shall be well supplied and fed,
With living streams and living bread.
Blest are the men whose bowels move,
And melt with sympathy and love;
From Christ, the Lord, they shall obtain
Like sympathy, and love again.
Blest are the pure, whose hearts are clean,
From the defiling power of sin;
With endless pleasure they shall see
A God of spotless purity.
Blest are the men of peaceful life,
Who quench the coals of growing strife;
They shall be called the heirs of bliss,
The sons of God, the God of peace.
Blest are the sufferers who partake
Of pain and shame, for Jesus' sake;
Their souls shall triumph in the Lord;
Glory and joy are their reward.