Hymnal: A Selection of Christian Hymns
Date: 1818
Compiler: Rice Haggard
Publisher/Printer: John Norvell
First Line: Who shall ascend the heavenly place
Topic: The Golden Rule
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: LM
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Hymn Number: 130
Page Number: 131, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsWho shall ascend the heavenly place,
Great God, and dwell before thy face?
The man that minds religion now,
And humbly walks with God below -
Whose hands are pure, whose heart is clean,
Whose lips still speak the thing they mean;
No slanders dwell upon his tongue,
He hates to do his neighbor wrong.
Firm to his word he ever stood,
And always makes his promise good;
Nor dares to change the thing he swears,
Whatever pain or loss he bears.
He never deals in bribing gold,
And mourns that justice should be sold;
While others scorn and wrong the poor,
Sweet charity attends his door.
He loves his enemies, and prays
For those that curse him to his face:
And doth to all men still the same,
That he would hope or wish from them.
Yet when his holiest works are done,
His soul depends on grace alone;
This is the man thy face shall see,
And dwell, forever, Lord, with thee.