Good Thursday
Go To Dark Gethsemane
- Words:
- James Montgomery, 1820. Music: 'Gethsemane' or 'Petra' Richard Redhead, 1853.
- Setting:
- "The Church Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged" (Episcopal), 1896.
- Metre:
- 7 7 7 7 7 7
- 1Go to dark Gethsemane,ye that feel the tempter's pow'r;Your Redeemer's conflict see,watch with Him one bitter hour,Turn not from His griefs away;learn from Jesus Christ to pray.
- 2Follow to the judgment hall,view the Lord of Life arraigned;O the wormwood and the gall!O the pangs His soul sustained!Shun not suff'ring, shame, or loss;learn from Christ to bear the cross.
- 3Calv'ry's mournful mountain climb;there, adoring at His feet,Mark that miracle of time,God's own sacrifice complete."It is finished!" hear Him cry;learn from Jesus Christ to die.
- 4Early hasten to the tombwhere they laid His breathless clay;All is solitude and gloom.Who has taken Him away?Christ is ris'n! He meets our eyes;Savior, teach us so to rise.
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- Written in 1825, the words are in 532 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project (Brian J. Dumont), which places its own work in the public domain. Further sheet music is from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.