“Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving.”
O GOD, we come before Thee,
To magnify Thy name;
To worship and adore Thee,
Thy glory to proclaim!
Thou, Thou alone, art worthy
Of highest, loudest praise!
Accept, O God, our worship,
Though feeble be our lays.
Our Father, we extol Thee,
That Thou didst give Thy Son,
Thy Christ, Thy well-beloved,
For sinners, lost, undone.
How infinite Thy mercy!
How measureless Thy love!
Oh! who their depths can fathom,
Or who their heights can prove?
Oft now our cup o’erfloweth,
Oft now our joy is full,
As we recount Thy mercies,
As we Thy grace recall, ―
The grace that hath enriched us,
From judgment set us free,
And made us in Christ Jesus
So very nigh to Thee!
Soon, soon we shall behold Him
In His fair home of love;
No shadows ever darken
That scene of light and love.
Oh! then these very bodies
Shall fashioned be like His!
Then, with Him, and then like Him,
How full, how deep our bliss!
Oh! send Him, God our Father!
We long His face to see,
Who gave Himself once for us
On Calvary’s cursed tree.
He wills, He also longeth
To have His Church, His bride,
Where He is, with Him ever
Exalted, glorified!
M. S. S.