Hymnal: Christian Psalms and Hymns
Date: 1839
Compiler: Walter Scott and Silas Leonard
Publisher/Printer: A S Tilden
First Line: Come to the glorious gospel-feast
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Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
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Meter: CM
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Hymn Number: 534
Page Number: 272, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsCOME to glorious gospel-feast,
Ho! every one that will;
O come you starving souls and taste
Those joys that none can tell.
Arise you mortals that are sad,
And bordering on despair,
Lo, there is balm in Gilead,
And a Physician there.
Look to the Saviour's bleeding side,
Behold the purple gore;
It was for wounded souls he died,
The sin-sick to restore.
Behold him on the cursed tree,
With arms extended wide,
For sinners such as you and me,
The bleeding Saviour died.
'Tis finished, said his dying breath,
He conquered death and hell;
That rebels doomed to endless death,
Might in his bosom dwell.
Come, then, receive his grace, and tell
The wonders of his love;
Till we arrive with him to dwell,
In brighter worlds above.
No sin or foe shall there annoy,
Or wound our peaceful breast;
But boundless love, unmingled joy,
And everlasting rest.
CHORUS.
When we've been there ten thousand years
Bright shining as the sun;
We've no less days to sing his praise,
Than when we first begun.