Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: O happy day
Topic: Baptism
Writer: Philip Doddridge
Composer: E Rimbault
Meter: LM with chorus
Tune: Happy Day
Hymn Number: 556
Page Number: 200, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsO HAPPY day, that fixed my choice
O thee, my Saviour and my God!
Well may this glowing heart rejoice,
And tell its raptures all abroad.-CHO.
Hap-py day, hap-py day,
When Je-sus washed my sins a-way!
He taught me how to watch and pray,
And live re-joic-ing eve-ery day,
Happy day, Happy day,
When Jesus washed my sins a-way!
O happy bond, that seals my vows
To him who merits all my love!
Let cheerful anthems fill his house,
While to that sacred shrine I move.-CHO.
'Tis done, the great transaction's done;
I am my Lord's and he is mine;
He drew me, and I followed on,
Charmed to confess the voice divine.-CHO.
Now rest, my long-divided heart,
Fixed on this blissful center, rest;
Here have I found a nobler part,
Here heavenly pleasures fill my breast.-CHO.