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STEPHEN'S DEATH




What tender pity, love, and care,
For suff `ring saints doth Jesus bear;
While they his glorious name confess,
’Midst persecution and distress.


Tho’ by th' oppressors rod they smart,
See the Redeemer still impart
His consolations all divine,
With cheerful beams their faces shine.


Thus Stephen, the first martyr, dies,
To truth a joyful sacrifice;
To vindicate the cause of God,
He seals the gospel with his blood.


Lo! on his countenance appears
Such radiance as an angel wears;
Reflected rays of glory bright,
Meet the spectator’s wond’rous sight.


Not death, with all its dread array,
His heaveu-born soul could e’er dismay;
Jesus, the saint expiring, cheers,
And to his raptur’d sight appears.


“Behold,” he cries, “ heaven's gates expand;
Exalted see, at God’s right hand,
The Son of man, with glory crow’d,
And the bright seraphim around."


Thus would the view of Jesu’s face,
Each fear disarm, each terror chase;
Thus blest with joy, we yield our breath,
Triumphing o’er the monster, death.

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LYRICS
Meter: 8 8 8 8 (L.M.)
Writer(s):
    Trans/Adapted:
      Dates:
      Bible Refs: Ac 6:15; Ac 7:56-59;
      LIST OF LYRIC SOURCES
      Hymn/Song Book Year Song #
      1815# 470
      MUSIC
      Name: ERNAN
      Meter: 8 8 8 8 (L.M.)
      Writer(s):
        Dates: 1850
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