Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: As on the cross the Saviour hung (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn-Book

Date: 1829

Compiler: B W Stone and T Adams

Publisher/Printer: N L Finnell

First Line: As on the cross the Saviour hung

Topic: Penitential

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer:

Meter: CM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 39

Page Number: 045, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

As on the cross the Saviour hung

And groan'd and bled and died

He pour'd salvation on a wretch 

That languish'd at his side.



His crimes with inward grief and shame

The penitent confess'd;

Then turn'd his dying eyes to Christ,

And thus his prayer address'd.



Jesus, thou son and heir of heaven,

Thou spotless Lamb of God!

I see thee bath'd in sweat and tears,

And welt'ring in thy blood.



"Yet quickly from these scenes of wo,

In triumph thou shalt rise,

Burst thro' the gloomy shades of death,

And shine above the skies.



Amid the glories of that world,

Dear Saviour, think on me;

And in the vict'ries of thy death,

Let me a sharer be."



His prayer the dying Jesus hears,

And instantly replies,

"Today thy parting soul shall be

With me in paradise."