Hymnal: Christian Psalms and Hymns
Date: 1839
Compiler: Walter Scott and Silas Leonard
Publisher/Printer: A S Tilden
First Line: You needy souls arise
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: 8s and 6s
Tune:
Hymn Number: 594
Page Number: 309, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsYOU needy souls, arise,
With all who sleep, awake;
Be to salvation wise,
Oil in your vessels take:
Upstarting at the midnight cry,
Behold the heavenly bridegroom nigh.
He comes, he comes to call
The nations to his bar,
And take to glory all
Who meet for glory are;
Make ready for your free reward,
Go forth with joy to meet your Lord.
Go meet him in the sky,
Your everlasting friend;
Your head to glorify,
With all his saints ascend;
Ye pure in heart obtain the grace,
To see, without a veil, his face.
Ye that have here received,
The unction from above;
And in his Spirit liv'd,
And thirsted for his love;
Jesus shall claim you for his bride,
Rejoice will all the sanctified.
Rejoice in glorious hope
Of that great day unknown,
When you shall be caught up
To stand before his throne:
Called to partake the marriage feast,
And lean on our Immanuel's breast.
Then let us wait to hear
The trumpet's welcome sound,
To see our Lord appear,
May we be watching found:
Enrob'd in righteousness divine,
In which the church shall ever shine.