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Hymn: When thou my righteous Judge shall come (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: When thou my righteous Judge shall come

Topic: The Present and the Future/Final Judgment

Writer: <no first name given> Countess of the Huntingdon

Composer:

Meter: CPM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 1114

Page Number: 661, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

When thou, my righteous Judge, shalt come

To take thy ransomed people home,

Shall I among them stand?

Shall such a worthless worm as I,

Who sometimes am afraid to die,

Be found at thy right hand?



I love to meet thy people now,

Before thy feet with them to bow,

Though vilest of them all;

But-can I bear the piercing thought-

What if my name should be left out,

When thou for then shalt call?



O Lord, prevent it by thy grace;

Be thou my only hiding-place,

In this, th' accepted day;

Thy pardoning voice, O, let me hear,

To still my unbelieving fear,

Nor let me fall, I pray.



And when the final trump shall sound,

Among thy saints let me be found,

To bow before thy face;

Then in triumphant strains I'll sing.

While heaven's resounding mansions ring

With praise of sovereign grace.