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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Behold the morning sun (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: Behold the morning sun

Topic: The Gospel/The Proclamation

Writer: <no first name given> Watts

Composer:

Meter: SM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 271

Page Number: 169, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Behold, the morning sun

Begins his glorious way;

His beams through all the nations run,

And light and life convey.



But where the gospel comes,

It spreads diviner light;

It calls dead sinners from their tombs,

And gives the blind their sight.



How perfect is thy word!

And all thy judgments just!

For ever sure thy promise, Lord,

And we securely trust.



My gracious God, how plain

Are thy directions given!

O, may I never read in vain,

But find the path to heaven.