Hymnal: A Selection of Christian Hymns
Date: 1818
Compiler: Rice Haggard
Publisher/Printer: John Norvell
First Line: How welcome to the saints when prest
Topic: For the Lord's Day
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 199
Page Number: 191, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsHow welcome to the saints, when prest
With six days' noise, and care and toil,
Is the returning day of rest
Which frees them from the world awhile.
If pinched with poverty, at home,
Or, if with sharp affliction fed,
It makes amends, if they can come
To God's own house for heavenly bread.
With joy they hasten to the place,
Where they the Saviour oft have met,
And while they feast upon his grace
Their burdens and their griefs forget.
This favored lot, my friends, is ours,
May we the privilege improve;
And find these consecrated hours,
Sweet earnest of the joys above.
We thank thee for thy day, O Lord,
Here we thy promised presence seek;
Open thy hands, with blessings stored,
And give us manna for the week.