How Sweet and Awful is the Place | Christian Song Lyrics | Yeshu Geets

 Verse 1

How sweet and awful is the place

With Christ within the doors,

While everlasting love displays

The choicest of her stores!

Verse 2

Here every kindness of our God

With soft compassion rolls;

Here peace and pardon

Bought with blood

Is food for dying souls.

Verse 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?

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 drew 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 the strangers home.

Verse 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.