How blest the hour when first we gave

How blest the hour when first we gave

Author: S. F. Smith
Published in 16 hymnals

Representative Text

1 How blest the hour when first we gave
Our guilty souls to thee, O God!
A cheerful sacrifice of love,
Bought with the Saviour's precious blood.

2 How blest the vows we here record!
How blest the grace we here receive!
Buried to rise with Christ our Lord,
New lives of holiness to live.

3 How blest the solemn rite that seals
Our death to sin, our guilt forgiven!
How blest the emblem that reveals
God reconciled, and peace with heaven!

4 Thus through the emblematic grave
The glorious suffering Saviour trod;
Thou art our Pattern, through the wave
We follow thee, blest Son of God.

Source: The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book: for use in divine worship #1081

Author: S. F. Smith

Smith, Samuel Francis, D.D., was born in Boston, U.S.A., Oct. 21, 1808, and graduated in arts at Harvard, and in theology at Andover. He entered the Baptist ministry in 1832, and became the same year editor of the Baptist Missionary Magazine. He also contributed to the Encyclopaedia Americana. From 1834 to 1842 he was pastor at Waterville, Maine, and Professor of Modern Languages in Waterville College. In 1842 he removed to Newton, Massachusetts, where he remained until 1854, when he became the editor of the publications of the Baptist Missionary Union. With Baron Stow he prepared the Baptist collection known as The Psalmist, published in 1843, to which he contributed several hymns. The Psalmist is the most creditable and influential of… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: How blest the hour when first we gave
Author: S. F. Smith
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

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Hymn-Book of the Evangelical Association #650

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Hymns for the Sanctuary and Social Worship #947

Hymns for Use in Divine Worship ... Seventh-Day Adventists #d435

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The Baptist Hymn and Tune Book #1468

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The Baptist Hymnal, for Use in the Church and Home #523

The Baptist Hymnal #523

The Baptist Hymnal. Shaped notes ed. #d225

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The Baptist Praise Book #742

The Centennial Hymnal #d142

The Church Hymnal #d150

The Evangelical Hymn and Tune Book #d271

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The Otterbein Hymnal #474

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The People's Hymnal #474

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The Sanctuary Hymnal, published by Order of the General Conference of the United Brethren in Christ #450

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The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book #1081

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The Standard Church Hymnal #406

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