Go to Dark Gethsemane
Author: James Montgomery (1825)
Tune: REDHEAD NO. 76
Go to dark Gethsemane,
All who feel the tempter’s pow’r;
All who feel the tempter’s pow’r;
Your Redeemer’s conflict see.
Watch with him one bitter hour;
Watch with him one bitter hour;
Turn not from his griefs away;
Learn from Jesus Christ to pray.
Learn from Jesus Christ to pray.
Follow to the judgment hall,
View the Lord of life arraigned;
View the Lord of life arraigned;
Oh, the worm-wood and the gall!
Oh, the pangs his soul sustained!
Oh, the pangs his soul sustained!
Shun not suff’ring, shame, or loss;
Learn of him to bear the cross.
Learn of him to bear the cross.
Calv’ry’s mournful mountain climb;
There, adoring at his feet,
There, adoring at his feet,
Mark that miracle of time,
God’s own sacrifice complete.
God’s own sacrifice complete.
“It is finished!” hear him cry;
Learn from Jesus Christ to die.
Learn from Jesus Christ to die.
Early hasten to the tomb
Where they laid his breathless clay;
Where they laid his breathless clay;
All is solitude and gloom.
Who has taken him away?
Who has taken him away?
Christ is ris’n! He meets our eyes.
Savior, teach us so to rise.
Savior, teach us so to rise.
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