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Hymn: How charming is the place (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal

Date: 1871

Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee

Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall

First Line: How charming is the place

Topic: The Church/Constitution

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

Composer:

Meter: SM

Tune: Shirland

Hymn Number: 332

Page Number: 123, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

How charm-ing is the place

Where my Re-deem-er, God,

Un-veils the beau-ties of his face,

And sheds his love a-broad!



Not the fair palaces

To which the great resort

Are once to be compared with this,

Where Jesus holds his court.



Here on the mercy-seat,

With radiant glory crowned,

Our joyful eyes behold him sit,

And smile on all around.



To him their prayers and cries

Each humble soul presents;

He listens to their broken sighs,

And grants them all their wants.



Give me, O Lord, a place

Within thy blessed abode,

Among the children of thy grace,

The servants of my God.