When the King Comes In

There's a feast of love in the courts above

Author: Abner P. Cobb
Tune: [There's a feast of love in the courts above]
Published in 2 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 There’s a feast of love in the courts above,
There is room for all in the wedding hall;
For the King’s Son weds, and a feast He spreads,
In the royal wedding hall.

Refrain:
When the King comes in,
When the King comes in
To the feast of love in the courts above,
Ev’ry wedding guest must be richly dress’d,
When the King, when the King comes in.

2 See! the robes they wear, who are gather’d there
See! the Bridegroom now, with the thorn-crown’d brow,
And the wedding dress is His righteousness,
In the royal wedding hall. [Refrain]

3 Woe to them that come on that wedding morn!
Woe to them that there others robes shall wear!
For none enters in with a robe of sin,
To the royal wedding hall. [Refrain]

Source: Crowning Day No. 2 #243

Author: Abner P. Cobb

Born: October 27, 1853, Woos­ter, Ohio. Died: Feb­ru­a­ry 11, 1923. Buried: Fairlawn Cemetery, Decatur, Illinois. Cobb’s fam­i­ly moved to De­ca­tur, Il­li­nois, when he was about 13 years old. As a young man, he worked as a ma­chin­ist. He grad­u­at­ed from Eu­re­ka Coll­ege, Eu­re­ka, Il­li­nois, in 1878, and pas­tored in Nor­mal, Wash­burn, Pe­ter­sburg and Spring­field, Il­li­nois; Des Moines, Io­wa; Cov­ing­ton, Ken­tucky; and San Antonio, Tex­as. He was al­so an ac­tive evan­gel­ist, at­tend­ing meet­ings in Bos­ton, New York Ci­ty, Min­ne­ap­o­lis, and other ma­jor ci­ties. --www.hymntime.com/tch/  Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: There's a feast of love in the courts above
Title: When the King Comes In
Author: Abner P. Cobb
Language: English
Refrain First Line: When the King comes in
Copyright: Public Domain

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