Hymnal: A Selection of Christian Hymns
Date: 1818
Compiler: Rice Haggard
Publisher/Printer: John Norvell
First Line: Jesus where'er thy people meet
Topic: Supplication
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 43
Page Number: 047, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsJesus, wheree'er thy people meet,
There they behold thy mercy seat;
Where'er they seek thee thou art found;
And every place is hallowed ground.
For thou within no walls confined,
Inhabitest the humble mind;
Such ever bring thee where they come,
And going, take thee to their home.
Dear Shepherd of thy chosen few,
Thy former mercies here renew;
Here to our waiting hearts proclaim
The sweetness of thy saving name.
Here may we prove the power of prayer,
To strengthen faith and sweeten care;
To teach our faint desires to rise,
And bring all heaven before our eyes.
Behold, at thy commanding word,
We stretch the curtain and the cord;
Come, thou, and fill this wider space,
And bless us with a large increase.
Lord, we are few, but thou art near;
Nor short thine arm, nor deaf thine ear;
Oh! Rend the heavens; come quickly down,
Make thousand thousand hearts thine own.