Verse 1

How sweet and awesome is the place,

With Christ within the doors,

Where everlasting love displays

The choicest of her stores.

Verse 2

Here all the mercy of our God

With vast compassion rolls;

And peace and pardon through His blood,

Is food for ransomed souls.

Verse 3

While all our hearts in prayer and song

Join to admire the feast,

Each of us cries, with thankful tongue,

“Lord, why was I a guest?

Verse 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?”

Verse 5

‘Twas the same love that spread the feast,

That sweetly forced us in;

Else we had still refused to taste,

And perished in our sin.

Verse 6

Pity the nations, O our God!

Constrain the earth to come;

Send Thy victorious word abroad,

And bring lost sinners home.

Verse 7

We long to see Thy churches full,

That all Thy chosen race

May with one voice and heart and soul:

Sing Thy redeeming grace.