How Sweet and Aweful is the Place
Verse 1How sweet and aweful is the placeWith Christ within the doors,While everlasting love displaysThe choicest of her stores.
Verse 2While all our hearts and all our songsJoin to admire the feast,Each of us cry, with thankful tongues,"Lord, why was I a guest?
Verse 3"Why was I made to hear thy voice,And enter while there's room,When thousands make a wretched choice,And rather starve than come?"
Verse 4'Twas the same love that spread the feastThat sweetly drew us in;Else we had still refused to taste,And perished in our sin.
Verse 5Pity the nations, O our God,Constrain the earth to come;Send thy victorious Word abroad,And bring the strangers home.
Verse 6We long to see thy churches full,That all the chosen raceMay, with one voice and heart and soul,Sing thy redeeming grace.