Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: Christ the Lord is risen today
Topic: Christ/Resurrection
Writer: Charles Wesley
Composer: J Worgan
Meter: 7s
Tune: Easter Hymn
Hymn Number: 435
Page Number: 144, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsCHRIST, the Lord, is risen to-day,
Sons of men and angels say:
Raise your joys and triumphs high;
Sing, ye heavens; thou earth, reply.
Love's redeeming work is done;
Fought the fight, the battle won:
Lo! our Sun's eclipse is o'er;
Lo! he sets in blood no more.
Vain the stone, the watch, the seal-
Christ hath burst the gates of hell;
Death in vain forbids his rise-
Christ hath opened paradise.
Lives again our glorious King:
Where, O death, is now thy sting?
Once he died our souls to save:
Where's thy victory, boasting grave?