Hymnal: The Christian Psalmist
Date: 1848
Compiler: S W Leonard and A D Fillmore
Publisher/Printer: S W Leonard
First Line: Five porches for the sick were made
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Meter: 8 6 8 8
Tune: Bethesda
Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>
Page Number: 322, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsFive porches for the sick were made,
Where oft an angel came,
And there the impotent were laid,
The sick, the halt, the blind, the lame.
A man diseased there helpless lay
Who many years was bound,
And when the angel came that way
No friend to put him in he found.
At length the Saviour passing by,
Compassion moved his soul;
He saw him there in sorrow lie,
He saw, he spoke, and made him whole.
And there, by grief and sin oppressed,
At mercy's door I lay,
When Jesus came and touched my breast,
And bore my grief and sins away.
Now light breaks in upon my soul,
And love for Jesus name;
For him who makes the wounded whole,
Who heals the blind and cures the lame.