Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: O suffering Friend of human kind
Topic: Christ/Sufferings and Death
Writer: S Bulfinch
Composer: William Bradbury
Meter: LM
Tune: Zephyr
Hymn Number: 186
Page Number: 063, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsO SUFFERING Friend of human kind,
How, as the fatal hour drew near,
Came thronging on thy holy mind
The images of grief and fear!
Gethsemane's sad midnight scene,
The faithless friends, th' exulting foes,
The thorny crown, the insult keen,
The scourge, the cross, before the rose.
Did not thy spirit shrink dismayed,
As the dark vision o'er it came,
And, though in sinless strength arrayed,
Turn, shuddering, from the death of shame?
Onward, like thee, thro' scorn and dread
May we our Father's call obey,
Steadfast the path of duty tread,
And rise, through death, to endless day.