Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised
Date: 1882
Compiler: A I Hobbs et al
Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co
First Line: The Saviour bids us watch and pray
Topic: Christians/Following Christ
Writer: Thomas Hastings
Composer: Lowell Mason
Meter: CM
Tune: Chimes
Hymn Number: 294
Page Number: 107, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsTHE Saviour bids us watch and pray
Through life's brief, fleeting hour,
And gives the Spirit's quick'ning ray
To those who seek His pow'r.
The Saviour bids us watch and pray,
Maintain a warrior's strife;
Help, Lord, to hear Thy voice to-day;
Obedience is our life.
The Saviour bids us watch and pray;
For soon the hour will come
That calls us from the earth away,
To our eternal home.
O Saviour, we would watch and pray,
And hear Thy sacred voice,
And walk, as Thou hast mark'd the way,
To heav'n's eternal joys.