Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: How honored how dear is that sacred abode
Topic: The Church/Prayer and Social Meetings
Writer: <no first name given> Conder
Composer:
Meter: 11s
Tune:
Hymn Number: 585
Page Number: 354, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsHow honored, how dear, is that sacred abode,
Where Christians draw near to their Father and God;
'Mid worldly commotion my wearied soul faints
For the house of devotion, the home of the saints.
Thou hearer of prayer, O still grant me a place
Where Christians repair to the courts of thy grace,
More blest beyond measure one day so employed,
Than years of vain pleasure by worldlings enjoyed.
Me more would it please keeping post at thy gate,
Than lying at ease in the chambers of state;
The meanest condition outshines with thy smiles,
The pomp of ambition, the world with its wiles.
The Lord is a Sun, and the Lord is a Shield;
What grace has begun will with glory be sealed;
He hears the distressed, he succors the just,
And they shall be blessed who make him their trust.