Moravian Book of Worship ‎#349

349. Go to Dark Gethsemane

1 Go to dark Gethsemane,
all who feel the tempter’s pow'r;
your Redeemer’s conflict see;
watch with him one bitter hour.
Turn not from his griefs away;
learn of Jesus Christ to pray.

2 Follow to the judgment hall,
view the Lord of life arraigned;
O the wormwood and the gall!
O the pangs his soul sustained!
Shun not suff'ring, shame or loss;
learn of him to bear the cross.

3 Calvary’s mournful mountain climb;
there, adoring at his feet,
mark that miracle of time,
God’s own sacrifice complete.
“It is finished!” hear him cry;
learn of Jesus Christ to die.

4 Early hasten to the tomb,
where they laid his breathless clay:
all is solitude and gloom;
who has taken him away?
Christ is ris'n - he meets our eyes!
Savior, teach us so to rise.

Text Information

• First Line: Go to dark Gethsemane
• Title: Go to Dark Gethsemane
• Author: James Montgomery (1820, alt.)
• Meter: 7.7.7.7.7.7. Trochaic
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1995
• Scripture:
  Matthew 26:17-29
  ;
  Matthew 26:42
  ;
  Matthew 27:1-34
  ;
  Matthew 28:1-10
  ;
  Mark 14:32-42
  ;
  Mark 15:1-21
  ;
  Mark 16:1-8
  ;
  Luke 22:39-44
  ;
  Luke 23:1-26
  ;
  Luke 23:44-49
  ;
  Luke 24:1-12
  ;
  John 18:1-20:18
• Topic: Holy Week; Christ--Life and ministry of; Christian year--Holy Week

Tune Information

• Name: LATROBE
• Composer: Christian Ignatius Latrobe (c. 1790)
• Meter: 7.7.7.7.7.7. Trochaic
• Key: c minor
• Notes: 581 A in 1891 Offices of Worship and Hymns