Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: How charming is the place
Topic: Church/Zion
Writer: Samuel Stennett
Composer: George Kingsley
Meter: SM
Tune: Ferguson
Hymn Number: 361
Page Number: 121, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsHOW charming is the place
Where my Redeemer, God,
Unvails the beauties of his face,
And sheds his love abroad!
Not the fair palaces
To which the great resort
Are once to be compared with this,
Where Jesus holds his court.
Here, on the mercy-seat,
With radiant glory crowned,
Our joyful eyes behold him sit,
And smile on all around.
To him their prayers and cries
Each humble soul presents;
He listens to their broken sighs,
And grants them all their wants.
Give me, O Lord, a place
Within thy blest abode,
Among the children of thy grace,
The servants of my God.