Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: How beauteous were the marks divine
Topic: Christ/Humility
Writer: A Coxe
Composer: Samuel Stanley
Meter: LM
Tune: Stonefield
Hymn Number: 138
Page Number: 051, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsHOW beauteous were the marks divine,
That in thy meekness used to shine,
That lit thy lonely pathway, trod
In wondrous love, O Son of God!
O who like thee, so calm, so bright,
So pure, so made to live in light?
O who like these did ever go
So patient, through a world of woe?
O who like thee so humbly bore
The scorn, the scoffs of men, before?
So meek, forgiving, godlike, high,
So glorious in humility?
E'en death, which sets the prisoner free,
Was pang, and scoff, and scorn to thee;
Yet love through all thy torture glowed,
And mercy with thy life-blood flowed.
O, in thy light be mine to go,
Illuming all my way of woe;
And give me ever on the road,
To trace thy footsteps, Son of God.