Hymnal: Fillmore's Harp of Zion
Date: 1867
Compiler: A D Fillmore
Publisher/Printer: R W Carroll & Co
First Line: The host of heaven that throne surrounding
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: Amelia Welby
Composer:
Tune: Marseilles
Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>
Page Number: 266, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsThe host of heaven, that throne surrounding,
Where everlasting splendors glow,
Mid lyres with ceaseless praise resounding,
Beheld the earth involved in woe,
Beheld the earth involved in woe.
Deep night with fearful wing lay brooding,
Nor could lone Sinai's beacon red
Illume the midnight pall that spread,
Each glimmering ray of hope exluding,
When, lo! a Savior came!
The star o'er Bethlehem gleamed,
And angels tuned their harps of joy
To hail a world redeemed.
But ingrate man, by sin benighted,
Too oft repelled salvation's ray,
The gentle sigh of Calvary slighted,
And turned with rebel heart away,
And turned with rebel heart away.
God looked from heaven, and all had wandered,
Like erring sheep, had gone astray,
And, rushing down destruction's way,
Immortal treasures madly squandered;
When the blest Spirit came,
With light and power divine;
Bow, contrite sinner, to his sway,
And Christ and heaven are thine.