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Hymn: Ye humble souls that seek the Lord (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: Ye humble souls that seek the Lord

Topic: Christ/His Burial and Resurrection

Writer: <no first name given> Doddridge

Composer:

Meter: CM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 184

Page Number: 115, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Ye humble souls that seek the Lord,

Chase all your fears away;

And bow with reverence down, to see

The place where Jesus lay.



Thus low the Lord of life was brought;

Such wonders love can do!

Thus could in death that bosom lay,

Which throbbed and bled for you.



If ye have wept at yonder cross,

And still your sorrows rise,

Stoop down and view the vanquished grave,

Then wipe your weeping eyes.



But dry your tears, and tune your songs,

The Saviour lives again;

Not all the bolts and bars of death

The Conqueror could detain.



High o'er the angelic band he rears

His once dishonored head;

And through unnumbered years he reigns,

Who dwelt among the dead.