Hymnal: The Christian Psalmist
Date: 1848
Compiler: S W Leonard and A D Fillmore
Publisher/Printer: S W Leonard
First Line: 'T was the commission of our Lord
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Page Number: 285, click to see hymnal pages
Lyics'T was the commission of our Lord,
"Go teach the nations and baptize;"
The nations have received the word
Since he ascended to the skies.
He sits upon th' eternal hills
With grace and pardon in his hands;
And sends his cov'nant with his seals,
To bless the distant Pagan lands.
"Reform and be immersed," he saith,
"For the remission of your sins,"
And thus our sense assists our faith,
And shows us what the gospel means.
Our souls he washes in his blood,
As water makes the body clean;
And the good Spirit from our God
Descends like purifying rain.