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Hymn: Saviour haste our souls are waiting (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: Saviour haste our souls are waiting

Topic: The Present and the Future/Second Advent

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer:

Meter: 8s 7s and 4

Tune:

Hymn Number: 1102

Page Number: 653, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Saviour, haste: our souls are waking

For the long expected day,

When, new heavens and earth creating,

Thou shalt banish grief away;

All the sorrow

Caused by sin and Satan's sway.



Haste, O hasten thine appearing,

Take thy mourning people home;

'T is this hope our spirits cheering,

While we in the desert roam,

Makes thy people

Strangers here till thou dost come.



lord how long shall the creation

Groan and travail sore in pain,

Waiting for its sure salvation

When thou shalt in glory reign,

And like Eden

This sad earth shall bloom again?



Reign, O reign, Almighty Saviour,

Heaven and earth in one unite;

Make it known, that in thy favor,

There alone is life and light;

When we see thee

We shall have supreme delight.