Text: | Lord Jesus, when Your people meet |
Author: | William Cowper, 1731-1800 |
Tune: | WARRINGTON |
Composer: | Ralph Harrison, 1748-1810 |
Harmoniser: | David Evans, 1874-1948 |
1 Lord Jesus, when Your people meet
they come before Your mercy-seat;
where You are sought, You shall be found,
and every place is holy ground.
2 Your presence, by no walls confined,
is known within the humble mind;
the meek will bring You where they come,
and going take You to their home.
3 Dear Shepherd of your chosen few,
Your former mercies here renew;
here to our waiting hearts proclaim
the greatness of Your saving name.
4 Here may we prove the power of prayer
to strengthen faith and sweeten care;
to teach our faint desires to rise
and bring all heaven before our eyes.
5 Lord, we are few, but You are near;
Your arm can save, Your ear can hear:
break through the heavens, come quickly down,
and make a thousand hearts Your own!
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Lord Jesus, when Your people meet |
Author: | William Cowper, 1731-1800 (alt.) |
Meter: | LM |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2004 |
Topic: | The Temple: Worship |
Source: | Alt: Compilers of Hymns for Today's Church, 1982 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | WARRINGTON |
Composer: | Ralph Harrison, 1748-1810 |
Harmoniser: | David Evans, 1874-1948 |
Meter: | LM |
Key: | B♭ Major |
Source: | Harm.: The Revised Church Hymnary, 1927 |
Copyright: | By permission of Oxford University Press |