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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Welcome sweet day of rest (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised

Date: 1882

Compiler: A I Hobbs et al

Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co

First Line: Welcome sweet day of rest

Topic: Communion With Christ

Writer: Isaac Watts

Composer: Daniel Read

Meter: SM

Tune: Lisbon

Hymn Number: 88

Page Number: 039, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

WELCOME, sweet day of rest,

That saw the Lord arise;

Welcome to this reviving breast,

And these rejoicing eyes.



The King himself comes near,

And feasts His saints to-day;

Here may we sit and see Him here,

And love, and praise, and pray.



One day, within the place

Where Christ, my Lord, hath been

Is sweeter than ten thousand days

Within the tents of sin.