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EASTER DAY.
“THE LORD IS RISEN INDEED.”
“THAT I MAY KNOW HIM, AND THE POWER OF HIS RESURRECTION.”
The Lord is risen indeed!
The chains and bars of Death are swept aside:
Our debt is fully paid, our Surety freed,
And we are justified.
The chains and bars of Death are swept aside:
Our debt is fully paid, our Surety freed,
And we are justified.
The stone is rolled away:
Sin's huge obstruction is no longer seen;
Our manifold transgressions are to-day
As though they had not been.
Sin's huge obstruction is no longer seen;
Our manifold transgressions are to-day
As though they had not been.
Wide open stands the door:
Eternal Justice smiled, and it was done;
The powers of darkness could prevent no more
The rising of our Sun.
Eternal Justice smiled, and it was done;
The powers of darkness could prevent no more
The rising of our Sun.
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He shows His glorious face
And scatters mortal shadows with His eye:
Earth is all radiant with the light of grace
Beneath a cloudless sky.
And scatters mortal shadows with His eye:
Earth is all radiant with the light of grace
Beneath a cloudless sky.
And still, as years roll round,
Nature prepares to welcome this glad day,
With early blossoms strewn along the ground
And birds on every spray.
Nature prepares to welcome this glad day,
With early blossoms strewn along the ground
And birds on every spray.
His resurrection power
Oh, may I feel stirring within my soul;
As rising sap through all the vernal bower
Quickens the sleeping bole.
Oh, may I feel stirring within my soul;
As rising sap through all the vernal bower
Quickens the sleeping bole.
And oh, may I be seen
Clothed in the glorious robe which justifies,
As now the trees array themselves in green
To greet the vernal skies.
Clothed in the glorious robe which justifies,
As now the trees array themselves in green
To greet the vernal skies.
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And let me hear the voice
Of Peace, as of a bird, within my breast,
Which sweetly sings, O weary one, rejoice—
His righteousness thy rest.
Of Peace, as of a bird, within my breast,
Which sweetly sings, O weary one, rejoice—
His righteousness thy rest.
Be mine the inward seal
To certify my Saviour's crowning Sign,
And make me, not believe alone, but feel
That Jesus is Divine.
To certify my Saviour's crowning Sign,
And make me, not believe alone, but feel
That Jesus is Divine.
That He is risen indeed,
The outward proofs are neither few nor dim:
Such witness I accept, but do not need—
My heart is risen with Him!
The outward proofs are neither few nor dim:
Such witness I accept, but do not need—
My heart is risen with Him!
Then let my life display
The Spirit's fruit of self-forgetting love,
That all the world may know from day to day
My Treasure is above.
The Spirit's fruit of self-forgetting love,
That all the world may know from day to day
My Treasure is above.
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So, at the Trumpet's sound,
My slumbering dust Christ's quickening power shall share,
And rise again immortal from the ground
To meet Him in the air.
My slumbering dust Christ's quickening power shall share,
And rise again immortal from the ground
To meet Him in the air.
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