The Cyber Hymnal ‎#6381

6381. Stupendous Mystery!

1. Stupendous mystery!
God in our flesh is seen
(While angels ask, how can it be?)
And dwells with sinful men!
Our nature He assumes,
That we may His retrieve;
He comes, to our dead world He comes,
That all thro’ Him may live.

2. The true, eternal Word
To us a Child is given,
The sovereign God, th’Almighty Lord,
Who fills both earth and Heaven;
Our God on earth appears
To take our sins away,
And guide us thro’ the vale of tears
To realms of endless day.

Text Information

• First Line: Stupendous mystery
• Title: Stupendous Mystery!
• Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788
• Meter: SMD
• Language: English
• Source: The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, by S. T. Kimbrough, Jr., & Oliver A. Beckerlegge (Nashville, Tennessee: Abingdon Press, 1992), pages 106-7
• Copyright: Public Domain
• Notes: Alternate tune: DIADEMATA, George J. Elvey, Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1868

Tune Information

• Name: ACCRA
• Composer: James McGranahan, 1840-1907
• Meter: SMD
• Incipit: 51345 66511 71513
• Key: C Major
• Copyright: Public Domain