Hymnal: The Sacred Melodeon
Date: 1848
Compiler: A S Hayden
Publisher/Printer: A S Hayden
First Line: I have fought the good fight I have finished my race
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: 11s
Tune: The Martyr's Song
Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>
Page Number: 201, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsI have fought the good fight, I have finished my race,
And thee, O my Saviour, I soon shall embrace;
They may torture this body, my spirit is free,
And the billows of death shall but bear it to thee.
Let thy strength, Lord, but gird me, thy smile be but mine,
And my soul on thy faithfulness firmly recline,
The dungeon, the sword, or the stake I can dare,
And in transports expire, if my Jesus be there.
Did my Lord feel the scourge, did the thorns pierce his brow?
In the darkness of death on the cross did he bow?
All this didst thou suffer, my Saviour, for me,
Then welcome the fetters that bind me to thee.
United in sufferings, the promise is dear,
I shall, with my Jesus, in glory appear;
Out of great tribulation in triumph I go,
With my robe wash'd in blood, and made whiter than snow.
I go to my Saviour, I go to my God;
I tread the same path my Redeemer once trod;
Unworthy, my Saviour, unworthy am I
E'en to fall in thy cause, for thy truth e'en to die.
Lo! On my clear vision the seats of the bless'd
Seem calmly to shine, and invite me to rest;
Then unshaken my soul on the promise relies,
"Though I die, I shall live; though I fall, I shall rise."