Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: How happy are they who their Saviour obey
Topic: Baptism
Writer: Charles Wesley
Composer: Lowell Mason
Meter: 11s and 9s
Tune: Rowley
Hymn Number: 686
Page Number: 284, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsHow happy are they who their Saviour obey,
And have laid up their treasures above!
Tongue can not express the sweet comfort and peace
Of a soul in its earliest love,
Of a soul in it earliest love.
This comfort is mine, since the favor divine
I have found in the blood of the Lamb.
Since the truth I believed, what a joy I've received,
What a heaven in Jesus' blest name!
'Tis a heaven below my Redeemer to know;
And the angels can do nothing more
Than to fall at his feet, and the story repeat,
And the Lover of sinners adore.
Jesus all the day long is my joy and my song:
O that all to this refuge may fly!
He has loved me, I cried; he has suffered and died
To redeem such a rebel as I!
On the wings of his love I am carried above
All my sin and temptation and pain:
O why should I grieve, while on him I believe?
O why should I sorrow again?
O the rapturous height of that holy delight,
Which I find in the life-giving blood!
Of my Saviour possessed, I am perfectly blessed,
Being filled with the fullness of God!
Now my remnant of days will I spend to his praise,
Who has died, me from sin to redeem;
Whether many or few, all my years are his due-
They shall all be devoted to him.
What a mercy is this! what a heaven of bliss!
How unspeakably happy am I!
Gathered into the fold, with believers enrolled-
With believers to live and to die!