🡅 🡇 🞮

THE JOYFUL MESSAGE

Scripture Verse

Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters…without money and without cost. Isaiah 55:1

Introduction

portrait
Fanny Crosby (1820–1915)

Words: Fan­ny Cros­by, in Pure Gold, by Ro­bert Low­ry & W. How­ard Doane (New York and Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois: Big­low & Main, 1871), num­ber 98.

Music: Tho­mas J. Cook (🔊 ).

If you know where to get a good pho­to of Cook (head & shoul­ders, at least 200×300 pix­els), would you send us an e-mail?

Lyrics

Joyful the mes­sage of Gos­pel grace,
Calling ev­ery na­tion;
Come to the Sav­ior and seek His face,
Here’s a full sal­va­tion;
Behold the way that leads from sin,
Brightly, bright­ly shin­ing,
And He that be­lieveth shall walk there­in,
And dwell in the beau­ti­ful land.

Refrain

Come, O come ye, come ye to the wa­ters!
Ho! ev­ery one that thirst­eth,
O come with­out mo­ney and buy!
Come, O come ye, come ye to the wa­ters!
Ho! ev­ery one that thirs­teth,
O come with­out mon­ey and buy!

Refrain

God is the re­fuge and strength of all,
He a sure foun­da­tion;
They that will trust Him shall nev­er fall,
He’s our great sal­va­tion;
O, come, and be for­ev­er blest,
Seek, and ye shall find Him;
There’s rest for the wea­ry, eter­nal rest,
A home in the beau­ti­ful land.

Refrain

Happy the peo­ple that know the Lord,
In His truth con­fid­ing;
Happy the peo­ple that love His word,
In His law abid­ing;
The Lord, our buckl­er and our shield,
Giveth grace and glo­ry,
And He will no good thing from them with­hold,
Who walk in the light of His love.

Refrain