Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: Welcome sweet day of rest
Topic: Public Worship/The Lord's Day
Writer: <no first name given> Watts
Composer:
Meter: SM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 626
Page Number: 376, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsWelcome, sweet day of rest,
That saw the Lord arise,
Welcome to this reviving breast,
And these rejoicing eyes.
The King himself comes near,
And feasts his saints to-day;
Here may we sit, and see him here,
And love, and praise, and pray.
One day, amid the place
Where Christ, my Lord, hath been,
Is sweeter than ten thousand days
Within the tents of sin.
My willing soul would stay
In such a frame as this,
And sit and sing herself away
To everlasting bliss.