Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: The Saviour risen today we praise
Topic: Lord's Day
Writer: Unknown Unknown
Composer: John Chetham
Meter: CM
Tune: Marlow
Hymn Number: 214
Page Number: 073, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsTHE Saviour risen to-day we praise,
In concert with the blest;
For now we see his work complete,
And enter into rest.
On this first day a brighter scene
Of glory was displayed,
By the Creating Word, than when
The universe was made.
He rises who mankind has bought
With grief and pain extreme;
'Twas great to speak the world from naught;
'Twas greater to redeem.
How vain the stone, the watch, the seal!
Naught can forbid his rise;
'Tis he who shuts the gates of hell,
And opens paradise.