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Hymn: How honor'd is the place (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised

Date: 1882

Compiler: A I Hobbs et al

Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co

First Line: How honor'd is the place

Topic: Church/Delight in

Writer: Isaac Watts

Composer: Daniel Read

Meter: SM

Tune: Lisbon

Hymn Number: 89

Page Number: 039, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

HOW honor'd is the place,

Where we adoring stand--

Zion, the glory of the earth,

And beauty of the land!



Bulwarks of grace defend

The city where we dwell;

While walls, of strong salvation made,

Defy th' assaults of hell.



Lift up th' eternal gates,

The doors wide open fling;

Enter, ye nations, that obey

The statutes of our King.



Here taste unmingled joys,

And live in perfect peace,

You that have known Jehovah's name,

And ventur'd on His grace.