Hymnal: The Christian Hymn-Book
Date: 1829
Compiler: B W Stone and T Adams
Publisher/Printer: N L Finnell
First Line: Who shall ascend thy heav'nly place
Topic: The Christian
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 214
Page Number: 238, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsWho shall ascend thy heav'nly place,
Great God, and dwell before thy face?
The man, that minds religion now,
And humbly walks with God below -
Whose heart is pure, whose hands are clean,
Whose lips still speak the thing they mean;
No slanders dwell upon his tongue,
He hates to do his neighbor wrong.
Firm to his word he ever stood,
And always makes his promise good;
Nor dares to change the thing he swears,
Whatever pain or loss he bears.
He never deals in bribing gold,
And mourns that justice should be sold,
While others scorn, and wrong the poor,
Sweet charity attends his door.
He loves his enemies and prays
For those who curse him to his face;
And doth to all men still the same,
That he would hope or wish from them.
Yet when his holiest works are done,
His soul depends on grace alone;
This is the man thy face shall see,
And dwell forever, Lord, with thee.