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
LyicsWhen 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.