O Happy Souls who Pray

Anonymous
#8, 1835 Kirtland Hymnal;
#7, 1840 Manchester Hymnal
 

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1. O happy souls who pray
Where God appoints to hear!
O happy saints who pay
Their constant service there!
We praise him still;
And happy we;
We love the way
To Zion's hill.

2. No burning heats by day,
Nor blasts of evening air,
Shall take our health away,
If God be with us there:
He is our sun,
And he our shade,
To guard the head
By night or noon.

3. God is the only Lord,
Our shield and our defence;
With gifts his hand stor'd:
We draw our blessings thence.
He will bestow
On Jacob's race,
Peculiar grace,
And glory too.

This page is part of the "Lost Hymns Project" by Bruce T. Forbes