Hymns to the Living God ‎#202

202. How Sweet and Awful Is the Place

1 How sweet and awful is the place
with Christ within the doors,
while everlasting love displays
the choicest of her stores.

2 While all our hearts and all our songs
join to admire the feast,
each of us cries, with thankful tongue,
"Lord, why was I a guest?

3 "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?"

4 '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.

5 Pity the nations, O our God,
constrain the earth to come;
send Thy victorious Word abroad,
and bring the strangers home.

6 We long to see Thy churches full,
that all the chosen race
may, with one voice and heart and soul,
sing Thy redeeming grace.

Text Information

• First Line: How sweet and awful is the place
• Title: How Sweet and Awful Is the Place
• Author: Isaac Watts (1707, alt.)
• Meter: CM
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2017
• Topic: Salvation

Tune Information

• Name: ST. COLUMBA
• Meter: CM
• Key: E♭ Major
• Source: Irish melody; Harm. The English Hymnal, 1906