Calvary's Anthem

Calvary's Anthem

Heavenly Father,
Thou hast led me singing to the cross
     where I fling down all my burdens and see them vanish,
     where my mountains of guilt are leveled to a plain,
     where my sins disappear, though they are the greatest that exist,

    and are more in number than the grains of fine sand;

For there is power in the blood of Calvary
     to destroy sins more than can be counted
     even by one from the choir of heaven.
Thou hast given me a hill-side spring
     that washes clear and white,
    and I go as a sinner to its waters,
    bathing without hindrance in its crystal streams.
At the cross there is free forgiveness for poor and meek ones,
    and ample blessings that last for ever;
The blood of the Lamb is like a great river of infinite grace
     with never any diminishing of its fullness
     as thirsty ones without number drink of it.

O Lord, for ever will thy free forgiveness live
     that was gained on the mount of blood;
In the midst of a world of pain
     it is a subject for praise in every place
    a song on earth, an anthem in heaven,
    its love and virtue knowing no end.
I have a longing for the world above
     where multitudes sing thy great song,
     for my soul was never created to love the dust of earth.
Though here my spiritual state is frail and poor,
     I shall go on singing Calvary's anthem.
May I always know that a clean heart full of goodness
     is more beautiful than the lily,
that only a clean heart can sing by night and by day,
that such a heart is mine when I abide at Calvary.

From The Valley of Vision - A Collection of Puritan Prayers & Devotions page 173

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"He is Risen!"

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