Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: Bright source of everlasting love
Topic: Christian Benevolence
Writer: James Boden
Composer: John Chetham
Meter: CM
Tune: Marlow
Hymn Number: 213
Page Number: 073, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsBRIGHT source of everlasting love!
To thee our souls we raise,
And to thy sovereign bounty rear
A monument of praise.
Thy mercy gilds the path of life
With every cheering ray,
Kindly restrains the rising tear,
Or wipes that tear away.
To tents of woe, to beds of pain,
We cheerfully repair,
And with the gifts thy hand bestows,
Relieve the mourners there.
The widow's heart shall sing for joy;
The orphan shall be fed;
The hungering soul we'll gladly point
To Christ, the living Bread.