Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Let Zion's watchmen cry aloud (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn-Book

Date: 1829

Compiler: B W Stone and T Adams

Publisher/Printer: N L Finnell

First Line: Let Zion's watchmen cry aloud

Topic: Supplication

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

Composer:

Meter: CM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 79

Page Number: 083, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Let Zion's watchmen cry aloud,

And take th' alarm they give;

Now let them from the mouth of God,

Their awful charge receive.



'Tis not a cause of small import,

The pastor's care demands;

But what might fill an angel's thought,

And fill'd a Saviour's hands.



They watch for souls, for whom the Lord

Did heavenly bliss forego;

For souls, who must forever dwell

In happiness or wo.



All to the great tribunal haste,

Account to render there:

And shouldst thou strictly mark our faults,

Lord, how should we appear.



May all the watchmen, when they preach,

Their own Redeemer see;

And watch thou daily o'er their souls,

That they may watch for thee.