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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Hail sacred truth whose piercing rays (FL)

Hymnal: Christian Psalms and Hymns

Date: 1839

Compiler: Walter Scott and Silas Leonard

Publisher/Printer: A S Tilden

First Line: Hail sacred truth whose piercing rays

Topic: <no topic given>

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer:

Meter: CM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 244

Page Number: 125, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

HAIL sacred truth whose piercing rays,

Dispel the shades of night;

Diffusing o'er the mental world,

The healing beams of light.



O Saviour, send thy truth abroad,

In all its radiant blaze;

And bid the admiring world adore

The glories of thy grace.