Hymnal: The Christian Psalmist
Date: 1850
Compiler: Silas W Leonard and A D Fillmore
Publisher/Printer: S W Leonard
First Line: Ye virgin souls arise
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
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Meter: four 6s and two 8s
Tune: Burnham
Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>
Page Number: 274, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsYe virgin souls a-rise,
With all the dead awake,
Unto salvation wise,
Oil in your vessels take;
Upstarting at the midnight cry,
Upstarting at the midnight cry,
Be-hold Behold your heav'nly bridegroom nigh.
He comes, he comes, to call
The nations to his bar,
And take to glory all
Who meet for glory are:
Make ready for your full reward,
Go forth, with joy, to meet your Lord.
Go, meet him in the sky,
Your everlasting friend-
Your head to glorify,
With all his saints ascend:
Ye pure in heart, obtain the grace
To see, without a vail, his face.
Ye that have here receiv'd
The unction from above,
And in his spirit liv'd,
And thirsted for his love.
Jesus shall claim you for his bride:
Rejoice with all the sanctified.
Rejoice in glorious hope
Of that great day unknown,
When you shall be caught up
To stand before his throne;
Called to partake the marriage feast,
And lean on our Immanuel's breast.
The everlasting doors
Shall soon the saints receive,
With seraphs, thrones, and powers,
In glorious joy to live:
And far from sorrow, pain and sin,
With god eternally shut in.
Then let us wait to hear
The trumpet's welcome sound,
To see our Lord appear,
May we be watching found!
Enrob'd in righteousness divine,
In which the bride shall ever shine.