The Comforter Has Come
THE COMFORTER HAS COME12.12.12.6 with refrain
Words: Frank BottomeMusic: THE COMFORTER HAS COME, William James Kirkpatrick, 1890
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Words
O spread the tidings 'round, wherever man is found,
Wherever human hearts and human woes abound;
Let ev'ry Christian tongue proclaim the joyful sound:
The Comforter has come!
The Comforter has come, The Comforter has come!
The Holy Ghost from heav'n, The Father's promise giv'n;
O spread the tidings 'round, Wherever man is found:
The Comforter has come!
The long, long night is past, the morning breaks at last,
And hush'd the dreadful wail and fury of the blast,
As o'er the golden hills the day advances fast!
The Comforter has come!
Lo, the great King of kings, with healing in His wings,
To ev'ry captive soul a full deliv'rance brings;
And thro' the vacant cells the song of triumph rings;
The Comforter has come!
O boundless love divine! how shall this tongue of mine
To wond'ring mortals tell the matchless grace divine;
That I, a child of hell, should in His image shine!
The Comforter has come!
Sing, till the echoes fly above the vaulted sky,
And all the saints above to all below reply,
In strains of endless love the song that ne'er will die:
The Comforter has come!
Scripture
The Bible passages this hymn draws on, in the King James Version.
And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD’S hand double for all her sins.
For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees. As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem. And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies.
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
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