Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: How honored is the place (FL)

Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book

Date: 1882

Compiler: Fillmore Brothers

Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers

First Line: How honored is the place

Topic: Church/Zion

Writer: Isaac Watts

Composer: Handel

Meter: SM

Tune: Thatcher (Stop)

Hymn Number: 354

Page Number: 119, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

HOW honored is the place

Where we adoring stand-

Zion, the glory of the earth,

And beauty of the land!



Bulwarks of grace defend

The city where we dwell;

While walls, of strong salvation made,

Defy th' assaults of hell.



Lift up th' eternal gates,

The doors wide open fling;

Enter, ye nations, that obey

The statutes of our King.



Here taste unmingled joys,

And live in perfect peace,

You that have known Jehovah's name,

And ventured on his grace.