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Hymn: How charming 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 charming is the place

Topic: Church/Delight in

Writer: Samuel Stennett

Composer: Samuel Stanley

Meter: SM

Tune: Shirland

Hymn Number: 100

Page Number: 043, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

HOW charming is the place

Where my Redeemer, God,

Unveils the beauties of His face,

And sheds His love abroad!



Not the fair palaces

To which the great resort

Are once to be compar'd with this,

Where Jesus holds His court.



Here, on the mercy-seat,

With radiant glory crown'd,

Our joyful eyes behold Him sit,

And smile on all around.



To Him their pray'rs and cries

Each humble soul presents;

He listens to their broken sighs,

And grants them all their wants.



Give me, O lord, a place

Within Thy blest abode,

Among the children of Thy grace,

The servants of my God.