Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Let Zion's watchmen cry aloud (FL)

Hymnal: A Selection of Christian Hymns

Date: 1818

Compiler: Rice Haggard

Publisher/Printer: John Norvell

First Line: Let Zion's watchmen cry aloud

Topic: Ordination of a Minister

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer:

Meter: CM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 181

Page Number: 176, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Let Zion's watchmen cry aloud,

And take the alarm they give:

Now let them, from the mouth of God,

Their awful charge receive.



'Tis not a cause of small import,

The pastor's care demands;

But what might fill an angel's thought,

And filled a Saviour's hands.



They watch for souls for whom the Lord

Did heavenly bliss forego;

For souls who must forever live

In happiness or wo.



All tot he great tribunal haste,

Account to render there;

And should'st thou strictly mark our faults,

Lord, how should we appear.



May all the watchmen, when they preach

Their own Redeemer see;

And watch thou daily o'er their souls,

That they may watch for thee.