Go to Dark Gethsemane Lyrics James Montgomery, 1825
4 verses, meter 7s 6 l, public domain, free to print and project.
The words
Verse 1. Go to dark Gethsemane,
Ye that feel the Tempter’s power;
Your Redeemer’s conflict see,
Watch with Him one bitter hour;
Turn not from His griefs away,
Learn of Jesus Christ to pray.
Verse 2. Follow to the judgment-hall,
View the Lord of life arraigned;
Oh, the wormwood and the gall!
Oh, the pangs His soul sustained!
Shun not suffering, shame, or loss;
Learn of Him to bear the cross.
Verse 3. Calvary’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 of Jesus Christ to die.
Verse 4. Early hasten to the tomb
Where they laid His breathless clay;
All is solitude and gloom,—
Who hath taken Him away?
Christ is risen! He meets our eyes.
Savior, teach us so to rise.
Words copied from Evangelical Lutheran Hymn-Book (Abridged Edition) (1927). They were published in 1825, so they are in the public domain in the United States, and your church may print them, show them and sing them without a license.
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