1. THE voice of free grace
Cries, escape to the mountain,
For Adam's lost race,
Christ has opened a fountain,
For sin and transgression
And every pollution,
The blood it flows freely
In streams of salvation.
Hallelujah to the Lamb,
Who purchased our pardon,
We'll praise him again,
When we pass over Jordan.
2. This fountain so clear,
In which all may find pardon,
From Jesus' side flows
In plenteous redemption:
Though your sins they were
raised
As high as a mountain,
The blood it flows freely
From Jesus the fountain.
Hallelujah, &c.
3. O Jesus! ride on,
Thy kingdom is glorious,
Over sin, death and hell
Thou wilt make us victorious,
Thy name shall be praised
In the great congregation,
And saints shall delight
Ascribing salvation."
Hallelujah, &c.
4. When on Zion we stand,
Having gain'd the blest shore,
With our harps in our hands
We will praise him evermore,
We will range the blest fields
On the banks of the river,
And sing hallelujahs
For ever and ever.
23. WAKE, ISLES OF THE SOUTH. Composed by W. B.Tappan, and
sung on the wharf, in New Haven, at the embarkation of the missionaries for the Sandwich Islands, in 1822.
1. WAKE, Isles of the South! Your redemption is near, No longer repose
In the borders of gloom;
The strength of his chosen,
In love will appear,
And light shali arise
On the verge of the tomb.
2. The billows that girt ye,
The wild waves that roar,
The zephyrs that play
Where the ocean storms cease,
Shall bear the rich freight
To your desolate shore,
Shall waft the glad tidings
Of pardon and peace.
3. On the islands that sit
In the regions of night,
The lands of despair,
To obivion a prey,
The morning will open
With healing and light;
The young Star of Bethlehem
Will ripen to-day.
4. The altar and idol,
In dust overthrown,
The incense forbade
That was hallowed with blood;
The Priest of Melchizedec,
There shall atone,
And the shrines of Atooi
Be sacred to God.
5. The heathen will hasten
To welcome the time,
The day-spring, the prophet
In vision once saw,
When the beams of Messiah
Will 'lumine each clime,
And the isles of the ocean
Shall wait for his law.