Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: Behold the Saviour of mankind
Topic: Christ/The Crucifixion
Writer: S Wesley
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 175
Page Number: 108, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsBehold the Saviour of mankind
Nailed to the shameful tree!
How vast the love that him inclined
To bleed and die for me.
Hark! how he groans, while nature shakes,
And earth's strong pillars bend!
The temple's vail asunder breaks,
The solid marbles rend.
'T is finished! now the ransom's paid,
"Receive my soul!" he cries:
See -- how he bows his sacred head!
He bows his head, and dies!
But soon from death he'll rise again,
And in full glory shine;
O Lamb of God! was ever pain --
Was ever love like thine?