How Sweet and Awesome
[originally "Aweful" ] Is
The Place
Words: Isaac Watts
Music: “St. Columba,” (Irish melody)
How sweet and awesome is this place
With Christ within the doors
While everlasting love displays
The choicest of her stores!
While all our hearts and all our songs
Join to admire the feast
Each of us cry, with thankful tongues,
“Lord, why was I a guest?
“Why was I made to hear Thy voice
And enter while there’s room
When thousands make a wretched choice
And rather starve than come?”
’Twas the same love that spread the feast
That sweetly drew us in;
Else we had still refused to taste
And perished in our sin.
Pity the nations, O our God!
Constrain the earth to come
Send Thy victorious Word abroad
And bring the strangers home
We long to see Thy churches full
That all the chosen race
May with one voice, and heart and soul
Sing Thy redeeming grace...
For a midi music sample
of this beautiful hymn,
go to the Cyber
Hymnal here!