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Hymn: Our Christ hath reached his heavenly seat (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: Our Christ hath reached his heavenly seat

Topic: The Church/Divine Constitution

Writer: <no first name given> Frothingham

Composer:

Meter: CM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 450

Page Number: 275, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Our Christ hath reached his heavenly seat,

Through sorrows and through scars;

The golden lamps are at his feet,

And in his hand the stars.



O God of life, and truth, and grace,

Ere nature was begun!

Make welcome to our erring race

Thy Spirit and thy Son.



We hail the Church, built high o'er all

The heathens' rage and scoff;

Thy providence its fenced wall.

"The Lamb the light thereof."



O, may he walk among us here,

With his rebuke and love, --

A brightness o'er this lower sphere,

A ray from worlds above!