Hymnal: The Christian Psalmist
Date: 1850
Compiler: Silas W Leonard and A D Fillmore
Publisher/Printer: S W Leonard
First Line: Israel the desert trod
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Meter: SM
Tune: Hope
Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>
Page Number: 324, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsIs-rael the de-sert trod,
Sustained by power di-vine,
While wond'rous mercy marked the road
With many a mystic sign,
While wond'rous mer-cy marked the road
With many a mys-tic sign.
When Moses gave the stroke,
From Horeb's flinty side
Issued a river, and the rock
The Hebrew's thirst supplied.
But O what nobler themes
Does gospel grace afford!
From Calvary spring superior streams,
There hung the smitten Lord!
Of every hope bereft,
Sinners, to Jesus go;
Behold the Rock of Ages cleft,
And living currents flow.
Here may our spirits bathe,
Here may our joys abound!
Till ( passed the wilderness and death)
We tread celestial ground!