Go to Dark Gethsemane

Jesus' Sufferings and Death

269 — A place called Gethsemane.

269A place called Gethsemane.7s., 6 lines. 

1 GO to dark Gethsemane,

Ye that feel the tempter's power;

Your Redeemer's conflict see;

Watch with Him one bitter hour;

Turn not from His griefs away;

Learn of Jesus Christ to pray.

 

2 Follow to the judgment-hall,

View the Lord of life arraign'd;

Oh, the wormwood and the gall!

Oh, the pangs His soul sustain'd!

Shun not suffering, shame, or loss;

Learn of Him to bear the cross.

 

3 Calvary's mournful mountain climb

There, adoring at His feet,

Mark that miracle of time,

God's own sacrifice complete.

"It is finish'd!" hear Him cry;

Learn of Jesus Christ to die.

 

4 Early hasten to the tomb,

Where they laid His breathless clay;

All is solitude and gloom:

Who hath taken Him away?

Christ is risen:—He meets our eyes;

Saviour, teach us so to rise.

James Montgomery, 1825.

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