Hymnal: The Christian Hymn-Book
Date: 1829
Compiler: B W Stone and T Adams
Publisher/Printer: N L Finnell
First Line: Welcome sweet day of rest
Topic: The Lord's Day
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: SM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 288
Page Number: 312, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsWelcome, sweet day of rest,
That saw the Lord arise;
Welcome to this reviving breast,
And these rejoicing eyes.
The king himself comes near,
And feasts his saints to-day;
Here we may sit, and see him here,
And love and praise and pray.
One day, amidst the place,
Where my dear God has been,
Is sweeter than ten thousand days
Of pleasurable sin.
My willing soul would stay,
In such a frame as this,
And sit and sing herself away
To everlasting bliss.