LYRICS
| Meter: | 8 6 8 6 extended
| Writer(s): | Edward Denny & Horatius Bonar
| Transl/Adapt: |
| Dates: | 1839
| Bible Refs: | Ex 2:22
| Believers Hymn Book
| 1981
| 11
| Hymnal Comp to Book of Common Prayer
| 1890
| 182
| Hymns for The Little Flock
| 1981
| 94
| The Church Hymnal for the Christian Year
| 1917
| 487
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MUSIC
| Name: | ORTONVILLE
| | Meter: | 8 6 8 6 6
| | Writer(s): | Thomas Hastings
| | Dates: | 1837
|
 Hymns for Worship and Celebration
| 109
| Ab
| Baptist Hymnal
| 118
| Ab
| Baptist Hymnal
| 160
| Ab
| Baptist Hymnal
| 456
| Ab
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Alternate Tunes
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| 1. A pilgrim through this lonely world
The blessèd Savior passed;
A mourner all His life was He,
|:A dying Lamb at last.:|
2. That tender heart that felt for all,
For all its life blood gave;
It found on earth no resting place
|:Save only in the grave.:|
3. Such was our Lord;
and shall we fear
The cross with all its scorn?
Or love a faithless, evil world,
|:That wreathed
His brow with thorn?:]
4. Dead to the world,
with Him who died
To win our hearts, our love,
We, risen with our risen Head,
[:In spirit dwell above.:]
5. No! facing all its frowns or smiles,
Like Him, obedient, still,
We homeward press
through storm or calm
|:To Zion’s blessèd hill.:]
6. By faith His boundless glories there
Our wondering eyes behold;
Those glories which eternal years
|:Shall never all unfold.:]
7. **alt verses
8. Such was our Lord; and shall we fear
The cross with all its scorn,
Or court a faithless evil world
|: That wreathed
His brow with thorn? :|
9. No, facing all its frowns or smiles,
Like Him, obedient still,
We homeward press
through storm or calm
|: To yon celestial hill. :|
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