Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised
Date: 1882
Compiler: A I Hobbs et al
Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co
First Line: The Saviour ris'n today we praise
Topic: Christ/Resurrection
Writer: Unknown Unknown
Composer: Hugh Bond
Meter: CM
Tune: Frome
Hymn Number: 46
Page Number: 023, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsTHE Saviour ris'n to-day we praise,
In concert with the blest;
For now we see His work complete,
And enter into rest.
On this first day a brighter scene
Of glory was display'd
By the Creating Word, than when
The universe was made.
He rises who mankind has bought
With grief and pain extreme:
'Twas great to speak the world from nought,
'Twas greater to redeem.
How vain the stone, the watch, the seal!
Nought can forbid His rise:
'Tis He who shuts the gates of hell,
And opens Paradise.