Hymnal: Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs
Date: 1828
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: A Campbell
First Line: O Jesus the giver
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Meter: PM
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Hymn Number: Hymn 27
Page Number: 078, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsO JESUS! the giver
Of all we enjoy, Our lives to thy honor
We wish to employ:
With praises unceasing
We'll sing of thy name,
Thy goodness increasing,
Thy love we'll proclaim.
With joy we remember
The dawn of that day,
When, cold as December,
In darkness we lay;
The sweet invitation
We heard with surprise,
And witness'd salvation
To flow from the skies.
The wonderful name
Of our Jesus we'll sing,
And publish the fame
Of our Captain and King;
With sweet exultation
His goodness we prove,
His name is Salvation,
His nature is love.
We now are enlisted
In Jesus's cause,
Divinely assisted
To conquer our foes;
His grace will support us
Till conflicts are o'er,
He then will escort us
To Zion's bright shore.
And when to the regions
Of glory we rise,
And join the bright legions
That shout through the skies;
We'll tell the glad story
Of Jesus's grace,
And give him the glory,
The honor, and praise.
In this blest employment
Our spirits shall rest,
In sweetest enjoyment,
On Jesus's breast:
We'll drink of the streams
Of Immanuel's love,
And bask in the beams
Of thy glory above.