Hymnal: Christian Psalms and Hymns
Date: 1839
Compiler: Walter Scott and Silas Leonard
Publisher/Printer: A S Tilden
First Line: When to his temple God descends
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
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Meter: LM
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Hymn Number: 683
Page Number: 403, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsWhen to his temple God descends,
He holds communion with his friends,
His grace and glory there displays,
And shines with bright, but friendly rays.
While hovering o'er the happy place.
The spirit sheds his heavenly grace;
To fix our thoughts, our hearts to raise,
And tune our souls to love and praise:
'Tis here we learn the blessed skill
To know and do our Maker's will:
And while we hear, and sin, and pray,
With heavenly joy we soar away.
Oh! dearest hours of all I know,
Oh! sweetest joys of all below;
Here would I choose my fixed abode,
And dwell forever near my God.