Hymnal: The Pilgrim's Song
Date: 1814
Compiler: Elias Smith
Publisher/Printer: Elias Smith
First Line: From whence does this love and this union arise
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Hymn Number: 7
Page Number: 011, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsFrom whence does this love and this union arise,
That knits and so fastens our souls in such ties,
That hatred and malice is conquer'd by love;
So that nature and distance these ties can't remove.
In the garden of nature it cannot be found:
It grows and increases on Immanuel's ground;
From the veins of the Saviour it flows ever sweet;
And we drink it most plenty at Jesus' feet.
When in heav'nly places together we sit,
Where the Elders and brethren and sisters are met,
This love glows so sweetly in ev'ry heart,
We feel so united we're loth for to part.
The time so unnotic'd, it passes away,
We scarcely can miss a whole night or day,
The union we feel and the love we enjoy,
Is such that our souls can never be cloy'd.
We preach and we pray, and we talk and we sing,
We tell our experience again and again;
We talk about parting, but still we remain,
In love so united we cannot contain.
Each brother and sister their tythes must bring in;
Each one then does tell of some wonderful thing;
Our love then increases to a glorious flame,
And we give all the glory to God and the Lamb.