How Sweet and Aweful is the Place lyrics

Verse 1

How sweet and aweful is the place

With Christ within the doors,

While everlasting love displays

The choicest of her stores.

Verse 2

While all our hearts and all our songs

Join to admire the feast,

Each of us cry, with thankful tongues,

"Lord, why was I a guest?

Verse 3

"Why was I made to hear thy voice,

And enter while there's room,

When thousands make a wretched choice,

And rather starve than come?"

Verse 4

'Twas the same love that spread the feast

That sweetly drew us in;

Else we had still refused to taste,

And perished in our sin.

Verse 5

Pity the nations, O our God,

Constrain the earth to come;

Send thy victorious Word abroad,

And bring the strangers home.

Verse 6

We long to see thy churches full,

That all the chosen race

May, with one voice and heart and soul,

Sing thy redeeming grace.

• Artist:Christian Hymns & Songs