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Hymn: The sun above us gleaming (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Psalmist

Date: 1848

Compiler: S W Leonard and A D Fillmore

Publisher/Printer: S W Leonard

First Line: The sun above us gleaming

Topic: <no topic given>

Writer: A Crihfield

Composer:

Meter:

Tune: Sun of Righteousness

Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>

Page Number: 138, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Five porches for the sick were made,

Where oft an angel came,

And there the impotent were laid,

The sick, the halt, the blind, the lame.



A man diseased there helpless lay

Who many years was bound,

And when the angel came that way

No friend to put him in he found.



At length the Saviour passing by,

Compassion moved his soul;

He saw him there in sorrow lie,

He saw, he spoke, and made him whole.



And there, by grief and sin oppressed,

At mercy's door I lay,

When Jesus came and touched my breast,

And bore my grief and sins away.



Now light breaks in upon my soul,

And love for Jesus name;

For him who makes the wounded whole,

Who heals the blind and cures the lame.