1 Go to dark Gethsemane,
you that feel the tempter's power;
your Redeemer's conflict see,
watch with him one bitter hour.
From his griefs turn not away,
learn of Jesus Christ to pray.
2 Follow to the judgement hall;
see him beaten, bound, arraigned;
patiently he bears it all,
all our pain his soul sustained.
Shun not suffering, shame, or loss;
learn from Christ to bear the cross.
3 Climb to Calvary's mournful site:
there the Lord of glory reigns;
there, through weakness, wins the fight,
over sin our victory gains.
'It is finished!' hear him cry;
there, in Christ, we dare to die.
| Text Information | |
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| First Line: | Go to dark Gethsemane |
| Revised: | Andrew Donaldson (b. 1951) |
| Author: | James Montgomery (1771-1854) |
| Publication Date: | 2005 |
| Meter: | 77 77 77 |
| Topic: | Life in Christ: Christ Incarnate - Passion and Death |
| Language: | English |
| Copyright: | © 1997 The Presbyterian Church in Canada |
| Tune Information | |
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| Name: | PETRA (REDHEAD 76) |
| Composer: | Richard Redhead (1820-1901) |
| Meter: | 77 77 77 |
| Key: | d minor or modal |