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Hymn: O'er the gloomy hills of darkness (FL)

Hymnal: Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs

Date: 1828

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: A Campbell

First Line: O'er the gloomy hills of darkness

Topic: <no topic given>

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

Composer:

Meter: PM

Tune:

Hymn Number: Song 35

Page Number: 118, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

O'ER the gloomy hills of darkness,

Look, my soul, be still and gaze:

All the promises do travail

With a glorious day of grace:

Blessed jubilee,

Let thy glorious morning dawn.



Let the Indian, Let the Negro,

Let the rude barbarian see,

That divine and glorious conquest

Once obtain'd on Calvary:

Let the gospel

Loud resound from pole to pole.



Kingdoms wide that sit in darkness,

Grant them, Lord, the glorious light

And from eastern coast to western,

May the morning chase the night!

And redemption,

Freely purchas'd, win the day.



Fly abroad, thou mighty gospel!

Win and conquer! never cease!

May thy lasting wide dominions

Multiply and still increase!

Sway thy sceptre,

Saviour, all the world around!