LYRICS
| Meter: | 8 6 8 6 (C.M.)
| Writer(s): | Isaac Watts
| Transl/Adapt: |
| Dates: | 1707
| Bible Refs: | Lk 14:16-17; Lk 14:22-23
| Hymns and Spiritual Songs Vol 3
|
| 12
| Trinity Hymnal
| 1961
| 271
|
MUSIC
| Name: | ST. COLUMBA
| | Meter: | 8 7 8 7 Iambic
| Writer(s): | Irish traditional melody
| Dates: |
|  Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary
| 370
| No key
| Baptist Hymn Book
| 72
| Eb
| Hymns of Faith
| 396
| Eb
| Believers Hymn Book
| 451
| Eb
| |
| 1. How sweet and awesome
is this place
With Christ within the doors,
While everlasting love displays
The choicest of her stores!
2. Here every bowel of our God
With soft compassion rolls;
Here peace and pardon
bought with blood
Is food for dying souls.
3. While all our hearts
and all our songs
Join to admire the feast,
Each of us cry,
with thankful tongues,
“Lord, why was I a guest?
4. “Why was I made
to hear Thy voice,
And enter while there’s room,
When thousands make
a wretched choice,
And rather starve than come?”
5. ’Twas the same love
that spread the feast
That sweetly drew us in;
Else we had still refused to taste,
And perished in our sin.
6. Pity the nations, O our God!
Constrain the earth to come;
Send Thy victorious Word abroad,
And bring the strangers home.
7. We long to see Thy churches full,
That all the chosen race
May with one voice,
and heart and soul,
Sing Thy redeeming grace.
8. **alt version (orig)
9. How sweet and aweful
is the place
With Christ within the doors,
While everlasting love displays
The choicest of her stores!
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