The Cyber Hymnal ‎#5404

5404. O That Pearl of Great Price!

1. O that pearl of great price! have you found it?
Is the Savior supreme in your love?
O consider it well, ere you answer,
As you hope for a welcome above.
Have you given up all for this treasure?
Have you counted past gains as but loss?
Has your trust in yourself and your merits
Come to naught before Christ and His cross?

2. Have you come to the living Redeemer,
Him that bore all your sins on the tree?
Has He graciously pardoned and cleansed you
In the blood shed for you and for me?
At His feet as one dead, have you fallen,
And been quickened anew by His voice,
Till, entranced by His riches of goodness,
In His presence you live and rejoice?

3. Has the Savior, the righteous, the holy,
Cast the beams of His all searching light
Into all of your heart’s deep recesses,
And transformed into day their dark night?
O then answer these questions so pressing,
Before God, ere time’s favor shall cease,
Is the pearl of great price yours forever?
Have you Jesus, and in Him your peace?

Text Information

• First Line: O that pearl of great price! have you found it?
• Title: O That Pearl of Great Price!
• Swedish Title: Den kostliga pärlan
• Translator (from Swedish): Andrew L. Skoog (1893)
• Meter: 10.9.10.9 D
• Language: English
• Copyright: Public Domain

Tune Information

• Name: PÄRLAN
• Composer: Andrew L. Skoog (1893)
• Meter: 10.9.10.9 D
• Incipit: 34566 53515 55171
• Key: A Major
• Copyright: Public Domain