Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: The Saviour ris'n today we praise
Topic: Public Worship/The Lord's Day
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 622
Page Number: 374, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsThe Saviour ris'n to-day we praise
In concert with the blest;
For now we see his work complete,
And enter into rest.
On this first day a brighter scene
Of glory was display'd
By the Creating Word, than when
The universe was made.
He rises who mankind has bought
With grief and pain extreme:
'T was great to speak the world from nought,
'T was greater to redeem.
How vain the stone, the watch, the seal!
Nought can forbid his rise:
'T is he who shuts the gates of hell,
And opens Paradise.