The Bridegroom is at hand!

A-MEN.

3 Ye saints, who here in patience
Your cross and sufferings bore,
Shall live and reign forever,
Where sorrow is no more.
Around the throne of glory
The Lamb ye shall behold,
In triumph cast before Him
Your diadems of gold!

4 Our Hope and Expectation,
O Jesus, now appear;
Arise, Thou Sun so longed for,
O'er this benighted sphere!
With hearts and hands uplifted,
We plead, O Lord, to see
The day of earth's redemption,
That brings us unto Thee!

Laurentius Laurentii, 1700.

Auf meinen lieben Gott. 66, 77, 77.

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Secular Melody. J. REGNART, 1574.

2 Let shouts of gladness rise
Triumphant to the skies.

Here comes the King most glorious
To reign o'er all victorious.

3 He wears no kingly crown,
Yet as a king He's known;
Though not arrayed in splendor,
He still makes death surrender.

4 Thy heart now open wide,
Bid Christ with thee abide;
He graciously will hear thee,
And be forever near thee.

5 E'en babes with one accord
With thee shall praise the Lord,
And every gentile nation
Respond with exultation.

Johan Olof Wallin, 1816.

Henry. C. M.

S. B. POND, 1835.

Sa-tan's bond - age held:

3 He comes, the broken heart to bind,
The bleeding soul to cure,
And, with the treasures of His grace,
Enrich the humble poor.

Christmas. C. M.

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ron fetters yield. A-MEN.

4 Our glad hosannas, Prince of Peace,
Thy welcome shall proclaim;
And heaven's eternal arches ring
With Thy beloved Name!

Philip Doddridge, 1735.

GEORGE FREDERICK HÄNDEL, 1728.