Where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them.
Matthew 18:20
Words: Charles Wesley (1707–1788), in the Wesley manuscripts.
Music: Purleigh Arthur H. Brown, in Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1861 (🔊 pdf nwc).
O that I could, in every place,
By faith behold Jehovah’s face;
My strict observer see
Present, my heart and reins to try
And feel the influence of His eye
For ever fixed on me!
Discerning Thee, my Savior, stand
My advocate at God’s right hand,
I never shall remove;
I cannot fall, upheld by Thee,
Or sin against the majesty
Of omnipresent Love.
Now, Savior, now appear, appear,
And let me always see Thee near,
And know as I am known:
My spirit to Thyself unite,
And bear me through a sea of light
To that eternal throne.