Go to Dark Gethsemane

James Montgomery, 1820, revised 1825

Go to dark Gethsemane, Ye that feel the Tempter's power; Your Redeemer's conflict see, Watch with Him one bitter hour; Turn not from His griefs away, Learn of Jesus Christ to pray. 2. Follow to the judgment-hall, View the Lord of life arraigned; Oh, the wormwood and the gall! Oh, the pangs His soul sustained! Shun not suffering, shame, or loss; Learn of Him to bear the cross.

3. Calvary's mournful mountain climb; There, adoring at His feet, Mark that miracle of time, God's own sacrifice complete. "It is finished!" bear Him cry; Learn of Jesus Christ to die. 4. Early hasten to the tomb Where they laid His breathless clay; All is solitude and gloom, Who hath taken Him away? Christ is risen! He meets our eyes. Savior, teach us so to rise.

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