Scripture Verse

Lift up your heads, O gates, and be lifted up, ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in. Psalm 24:7

Introduction

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Sarah Clemans (1840–1885)

Words: Sar­ah I. Clem­ans, in Songs of the Cross, ed­it­ed by Ed­mund S. Lo­renz (Day­ton, Ohio: Unit­ed Breth­ren Pub­lish­ing House, 1876), number 63.

Mu­sic: Will­iam S. Mar­shall (🔊 pdf nwc).

If you know where to get a good pho­to of Mar­shall (head & shoul­ders, at least 200×300 pix­els),

Lyrics

Dear Sav­ior, Thy suf­fer­ings are ov­er;
The work of re­demp­tion is done.
The Fa­ther calls back to His side
His dear­ly be­lov­èd Son.

Refrain

O beau­ti­ful gates! un­fold, un­fold,
For Je­sus, our priest, our king!
Ye angels of light, with harps of gold,
Your loud hal­le­lu­jahs sing.

Hallelujah! our Ad­vo­cate reigns,
And lives to re­deem us from sin;
We’ll op­en our hearts to Him now;
Dear Je­sus, come in, come in!

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For now we re­mem­ber with joy
The Comforter pro­mised to come,
To dwell in our hearts here be­low,
And ne’er to leave us alone.

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Then la­bor and wait till He come,
His glory we then shall be­hold;
In His arms He will car­ry us home,
As beau­ti­ful gates un­fold.

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