Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal
Date: 1871
Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee
Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall
First Line: Hallelujah best and sweetest
Topic: The New Life/Aspirations
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer: I Woodbury
Meter: 8s 7s and 4s
Tune: Happy Zion
Hymn Number: 624
Page Number: 228, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsHallelujah! best and sweetest
Of the hymns of praise above!
Hallelujah! thou repeatest,
Angel-host, these notes of love;
This ye utter,
While your golden harps ye move.
Hallelujah! church victorious,
Join the concert of the sky;
Hallelujah! bright and glorious!
Lift, ye saints, the strains on high!
We, poor exiles,
Join not yet your melody.
Hallelujah! strains of gladness
Comfort not the faint and worn;
Hallelujah! sounds of sadness
Best become the heart forlorn;
Our offenses
We with bitter tears must mourn.
But our earnest supplication,
Holy God, we raise to thee;
Visit us with thy salvation,
Make us all thy peace to see!
Hallelujah!
Ours at length this strain shall be.