1 The glory of God from the way of the East
Shines into the sepulcher, slumber has ceased;
The stone, like a cloud, has moved lightly away,
And on it there sits a strong angel of day.
2 O seize him, ye soldiers—he sits on the stone:
Before him no bar, but beneath him a throne;
Bedazzled and smitten by terrible light,
The soldiers, they tremble and fall in their flight.
3 O, ring, bells of Heaven; ye throngs of the blest,
Again hallelujahs may swell from your breast;
Let surges of music, like summer seas bright,
Re-echo and roll through the heavenly height.
4 They hated and sent Him in darkness to dwell
Beneath the great mountains and billows of hell;
But He lit the caverns of ancient despair,
And with a new chain bound the fiend in his lair.
5 And freedom He gave those who sorely were bruised;
He triumphs today whom the people refused:
Of all that have loved Him He’ll comfort the soul,
His own wounded heart is for ever made whole.
6 And, O, ye kind angels, who grieved for your song,
Now sing that the right has prevailed over wrong;
The best of good-will shines through hatred and pain
And glory and peace have arisen to reign.
Source: The Cyber Hymnal #13482
Lynch, Thomas Toke, was born at Dunmow, Essex, July 5, 1818, and educated at a school at Islington, in which he was afterwards an usher. For a few months he was a student at the Highbury Independent College; but withdrew, partly on account of failing health, and partly because his spirit was too free to submit to the routine of College life. From 1847 to 1849 he was Minister of a small charge at Highgate, and from 1849 to 1852 of a congregation in Mortimer Street, which subsequently migrated to Grafton Street, Fitzroy Square. From 1856 to 1859 he was laid aside by illness. In 1860 he resumed his ministry with his old congregation, in a room in Gower Street, where he remained until the opening of his new place of worship, in 1862, (Morningto… Go to person page >
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