Before the throne of God above our Intercessor stands

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Before the throne of God above our Intercessor stands

Author: L. D. Santee
Tune: BRADFORD (Handel)
Published in 2 hymnals

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	The Christmas Messiah (Selections from H…

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1 Before the throne of God above
Our Intercessor stands;
Pleads for his own with deathless love,
With pierced and bleeding hands.

2 The barren rocks of Calvary
Echoes his dying cries,
When Christ became, as sin for me,
A wondrous Sacrifice.

3 Not yet may victors' songs be sung
In realms of endless light,
Not yet the notes of triumph rung
By saints all robed in white.

4 Not yet do pilgrims' weary feet
Find sweet abiding rest;
But when redemption is complete,
We'll dwell among the blest.

Source: The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book: for use in divine worship #352

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Author: L. D. Santee

Lorenzo Dow Santee, 1845-1919. Lorenzo Santee, a pioneer Seventh-day Adventist minister, served as a pastor in the state of Kansas and in Chicago and Moline, Kansas. He was also a writer and poet whose poem "When the King Shall Claim His Own" became the words for "In the Glad time of Harvest," Hymn #539 in the 1941 Seventh-day Adventist Church Hymnal. Lorenzo was born in Hornell, New York, on September 19, 1845, and raised in Steuben County, New York, near Hornell, the oldest of twelve children of James Moore and Celina Coal Santee. He and his parents accepted the doctrine of the second coming of Christ and the SDA interpretation of Revelation 14 when he was very young. He moved to Illinois in his late teens, attended Tremont College and… Go to person page >

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