Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal
Date: 1871
Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee
Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall
First Line: To spend one sacred day
Topic: Public Worship/Gratitude and Praise
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer: J Powell
Meter: HM
Tune: Lischer
Hymn Number: 493
Page Number: 180, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsTo spend one sacred day
Where God and saints abide,
Affords diviner joy
Than thousand days beside:
Where God resorts, I love it more
To keep the door, than shine in courts.
God is our sun and shield,
Our light and our defense;
With gifts his hands are filled;
We draw our blessings thence:
He will bestow on Israel's race
Peculiar grace, and glory too.