Our Savior Christ will quickly come

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Our Savior Christ will quickly come

Author: Edward Henry Bickersteth
Tune: CHESHIRE
Published in 4 hymnals

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1 Our Savior Christ will quickly come,
As lightning shines on high;
In clouds, with power and glory great,
Be seen by every eye.

2 While sudden terrors seize His foes,
His wrath they can’t escape;
The saints’ redemption then appears;
They realize their hope.

3 The dead are raised, the living changed,
From every land they come;
His Church’s number all complete,
Th’elect are gathered home.

4 Oh glorious hope! if Jesus be
Our Savior and our friend,
For we shall then be with our Lord,
In joys that never end.

5 Oh! may we wait, and watch, and pray,
Look up, and, free from fear,
Our life be all devotedness,
Till He our Lord appear.

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #16404

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Author: Edward Henry Bickersteth

Bickersteth, Edward Henry, D.D., son of Edward Bickersteth, Sr. born at Islington, Jan. 1825, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A. with honours, 1847; M.A., 1850). On taking Holy Orders in 1848, he became curate of Banningham, Norfolk, and then of Christ Church, Tunbridge Wells. His preferment to the Rectory of Hinton-Martell, in 1852, was followed by that of the Vicarage of Christ Church, Hampstead, 1855. In 1885 he became Dean of Gloucester, and the same year Bishop of Exeter. Bishop Bickersteth's works, chiefly poetical, are:— (l) Poems, 1849; (2) Water from the Well-spring, 1852; (3) The Rock of Ages, 1858 ; (4) Commentary on the New Testament, 1864; (5) Yesterday, To-day, and For Ever, 1867; (6) The Spirit of Life, 1868;… Go to person page >

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