How sweet and awe - ful is the place
With Christ with - in the doors,
While e - ver - last - ing love dis - plays
The choic - est of her stores.
Verse: 2
While all our hearts and all our songs
Join to ad - mire the feast,
Each of us cry, with thank - ful tongues,
"Lord, why was I a guest?
Verse: 3
"Why was I made to hear thy voice,
And en - ter while there's room,
When thou - sands make a wretch - ed choice,
And ra - ther starve than come?"
Verse: 4
'Twas the same love that spread the feast
That sweet - ly drew us in;
Else we had still re - fused to taste,
And pe - rished in our sin.
Verse: 5
Pi - ty the na - tions, O our God,
Con . - strain the earth to come;
Send thy vic - to - rious Word a - broad,
And bring the strang - ers home.
Verse 6
We long to see thy church - es full,
That all the cho - sen race
May, with one voice and heart and soul,
Sing thy re - deem - ing grace.
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A - MEN.