Go to Dark Gethsemane

Go to dark Gethsemane,
All who feel the tempter’s pow’r;

Your Redeemer’s conflict see.
Watch with him one bitter hour;

Turn not from his griefs away;
Learn from Jesus Christ to pray.

Follow to the judgment hall,
View the Lord of life arraigned;

Oh, the worm-wood and the gall!
Oh, the pangs his soul sustained!

Shun not suff’ring, shame, or loss;
Learn of him to bear the cross.

Calv’ry’s mournful mountain climb;
There, adoring at his feet,

Mark that miracle of time,
God’s own sacrifice complete.

“It is finished!” hear him cry;
Learn from Jesus Christ to die.

Early hasten to the tomb
Where they laid his breathless clay;

All is solitude and gloom.
Who has taken him away?

Christ is ris’n! He meets our eyes.
Savior, teach us so to rise.