Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: Behold the Saviour of mankind
Topic: Christ/Sufferings and Death
Writer: S Wesley
Composer: Thomas Hastings
Meter: CM
Tune: Ortonville
Hymn Number: 314
Page Number: 105, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsBEHOLD the Saviour of mankind
Nailed to the shameful tree!
How vast the love that him inclined
To bleed and die for me!
Hark! how he groans, while nature shakes,
And earth's strong pillars bend!
The temple's vail asunder breaks,
The solid marbles rend.
"'Tis finished!" now the ransom's paid,
"Receive my soul!" he cries;
See how he bows his sacred head;
He bows his head and dies!
But soon from death he'll rise again,
And in full glory shine;
O Lamb of God, was ever pain,
Was ever love like thine?