Living Hymns ‎#401

401. How Sweet and Awful

1 How sweet and awful is the place,
With Christ within the doors;
While everlasting love displays
The choicest of her stores.

2 While all our hearts, and all our songs,
Join to admire the feast,
Each of us cries, with thankful tongues,
"Lord, why was I a guest?

3 "Why was I made to hear your voice,
And enter while there's room,
When thousands make a wretched choice,
And rather starve than come.

4 "'Twas the same love that spread the feast,
That sweetly forced me in;
Else we had still refused to taste,
And perished in our sin.

Text Information

• First Line: How sweet and awful is the place
• Title: How Sweet and Awful
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1890

Tune Information

• Name: DUNDEE
• Meter: C. M.
• Key: F Major or modal