342HYMN CCCXXII.
8.8.8.8
James Montgomery
For a Sunday School Meeting at Whitsuntide.
With heart and soul, with mind and might, In many a glad and grateful throng, The aged and the young unite To sing their Pentecostal song. | This day brings sweet remembrances Of hallow'd seasons gone before, And pledges greater things than these, To schools and teachers, still in store. | Thus every year bequeaths one day Of special blessings to record; With dear companions by the way, While following on to know the Lord. | A gathering bore on pilgrimage Refreshes thousands in their course; A field-day here gives those who wage War with the world, redoubled force. | Among the annals of the past, This happiest day let us enrol, And year by year, while life shall last, Inscribe a happier on the scroll. | Can such a consummation be?-- This day is ours,--the only one; To spend it for eternity Will be the good work well begun. | |