Thanks for being a Hymnary.org user. You are one of more than 10 million people from 200-plus countries around the world who have benefitted from the Hymnary website in 2024! If you feel moved to support our work today with a gift of any amount and a word of encouragement, we would be grateful.

You can donate online at our secure giving site.

Or, if you'd like to make a gift by check, please make it out to CCEL and mail it to:
Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 3201 Burton Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546
And may the promise of Advent be yours this day and always.

Click here to donate to Hymnary.org I have already donated. Please don't show this to me again
Text:Welcome, delightful morn!
Tune:LISCHER
Composer:Dr. L. Mason

113. Welcome, delightful morn!

1 Welcome, delightful morn!
Thou day of sacred rest;
I hail thy kind return;
Lord, make these moments blest.
From low delights and trifling toys
I soar to reach immortal joys,
I soar to reach immortal joys.

2 Now may the King descend,
And fill his throne with grace;
Thy sceptre, Lord, extend,
While saints address thy face;
Let sinners feel thy quickening word,
And learn to know and fear the Lord,
And learn to know and fear the Lord.

3 Descend, celestial Dove,
With all Thy quickening powers;
Reveal a Saviour's love,
And bless these sacred hours;
Then shall my soul new life obtain,
Nor Sabbaths be enjoyed in vain.

Text Information
First Line: Welcome, delightful morn!
Publication Date: 1870
Notes: Tune for 135 and 77 in "American Sunday School Hymn Book" (ASS1860a)
Tune Information
Name: LISCHER
Composer: Dr. L. Mason
Meter: H. M.
Key: G Major or modal
Source: From "Car. Sac."



Media
More media are available on the text authority and tune authority pages.

Suggestions or corrections? Contact us
It looks like you are using an ad-blocker. Ad revenue helps keep us running. Please consider white-listing Hymnary.org or getting Hymnary Pro to eliminate ads entirely and help support Hymnary.org.