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
LyicsOur 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!