1 Christ the Lord will come again,
None shall wait for Him in vain;
I shall then His glory see,
Christ will come, and call for me.
Not as when His humble birth
Graced the meanest place on earth;
Not as when His tender heart
Bled with sympathetic smart.
2 Not as when for us He stood
Surety to an injured God;
Not as when our sins He bore,
Gashed with wounds, and bathed in gore;
But with trumpet’s awful sound,
With immortal glory crowned;
On a bright celestial throne,
Our Redeemer will come down.
3 Then, when His almighty voice
Shakes the earth, and rends the skies,
Rising millions will proclaim
Our Emmanuel’s glorious name.
"This is our redeeming God!"
Ransomed hosts will shout aloud;
"Praise, eternal praise, be giv’n,
To the Lord of earth and Heav’n!"
4 Oh, that I may then be found,
With them, rising from the ground!
Joining their immortal song,
With a new celestial tongue!
Let us own the Savior’s name,
Where the wicked count it shame;
Then the righteous Judge will own
Ours before His Father’s throne.
Swain, Joseph, was born at Birmingham in 1761, and after being apprenticed to an engraver, removed to London. After a time he became a decided Christian, and being of an emotional poetic temperament, began to give expression to his new thoughts and feelings in hymns. In 1783 he was baptized by the Rev. Dr. Rippon, and in 1791 became minister of a Baptist congregation in East Street, Walworth. After a short but popular and very useful ministry, he died April 16, 1796 Swain published the following:—
(1) A Collection of Poems on Several Occasions, London, 1781; (2) Redemption, a Poem in five Books, London, 1789; (3) Experimental Essays on Divine Subjects, London, 1791; (4) Walworth Hymns, by J. Swain, Pastor of the Baptist Church Meeting… Go to person page >
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