Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: Sweet the moments
Topic: Lord's Supper
Writer: J Allen
Composer: Joseph Mazzinghi
Meter: 8s and 7s
Tune: Stearns
Hymn Number: 499
Page Number: 168, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsSWEET the moments, rich in blessing,
Which before the cross we spend,
Life, and health, and peace possessing,
From the sinner's dying Friend.
Here we feel our sins forgiven
While upon the Lamb we gaze;
And our thoughts are all of heaven,
And our lips o'erflow with praise.
Still in ceaseless contemplation,
Fix our hearts and eyes on thee,
Till we taste thy full salvation,
And, unvailed, thy glories see.