Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: Welcome sweet day of rest
Topic: Lord's Day
Writer: Isaac Watts
Composer: Daniel Read
Meter: SM
Tune: Lisbon
Hymn Number: 350
Page Number: 118, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsWELCOME, sweet day of rest,
That saw the Lord arise;
Welcome to this reviving breast,
And these rejoicing eyes!
The King himself comes near,
And feasts his saints to-day;
Here may we sit and see him here,
And love, and praise, and pray.
One day, amid the place
Where my dear Lord hath been
Is sweeter than ten thousand days
Within the tents of sin.
My willing soul would stay
In such a frame as this,
And sit and sing herself away
To everlasting bliss.