Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: Thou art the Way and he who sighs
Topic: Christ/His Mediatorial Reign
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 223
Page Number: 139, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsThou art the Way; and he who sighs,
Amid this starless waste of wo,
To find a pathway to the skies,
A light from heaven's eternal glow,
By thee must come, thou Gate of love,
Through which the saints undoubting trod.
Till faith discovers, like the dove,
An ark, a resting-place in God.
Thou art the Truth, whose steady day
Shines on through earthly blight and bloom;
The pure, the everlasting Ray,
The Lamp that shines e'en in the tomb;
The Light that out of darkness springs,
And guideth those that blindly go;
The Word whose precious radiance flings
Its luster upon all below.
Thou art the Life, the blessed Well
With living waters gushing o'er,
Which those that drink shall ever dwell
Where sin and thirst are known no more
Thou art the mystic Pillar given,
Our Lamp by night, our Light by day;
Thou art the sacred Bread from heaven;
Thou art the Life, the Truth, the Way.