Hymnal: Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs
Date: 1853
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: A Campbell
First Line: 'Twas on that night that doleful night
Topic: The Last Scenes
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune:
Hymn Number: Psalm 27
Page Number: 058, click to see hymnal pages
Lyics'TWAS on that night, that doleful night,
When powers of earth and hell arose
Against God's Son, his chief delight,
And he betray'd was to his foes.
Before the mournful scene began,
He took the bread, and bless'd and broke;
What love through all his actions ran!
What wondrous words of grace he spoke!
This is my body broke for sin:
Receive, and eat the living food:
Then took the cup, and bless'd the wine--
'Tis the new covenant in my blood.
Do this, he said, till time shall end,
In mem'ry of your dying friend;
Meet at my table, and record
The love of your departed Lord.
Jesus, thy love we celebrate,
We show thy death, we sing thy name,
Till thou return, and we shall eat
The marriage-supper of the Lamb!