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Don’t Forget the Sabbath

Words by Fanny Crosby (1820–1915) · Public domain

The words

  1. Stanza 1. Don’t forget the Sabbath,The Lord our God hath blest,Of all the week the brightest,Of all the week the best;It brings repose from labor,It tells of joy divine,Its beams of light descending,With heav’nly beauty shine.

    Chorus

    Welcome, welcome, ever welcome,Blessed Sabbath-day.Welcome, welcome, ever welcome,Blessed Sabbath-day.

  2. Stanza 2. Keep the Sabbath holy,And worship him to-day,Who said to his disciples“I am the Living Way;”And if we meekly followOur Saviour here below,He’ll give us of the FountainWhose streams eternal flow.

  3. Stanza 3. Day of sacred pleasure!Its golden hours we’ll spendIn thankful hymns to Jesus,The children’s dearest friend;O gentle, loving Saviour,How good and kind thou art,How precious is thy promiseTo dwell in ev’ry heart!

The chorus is sung after each stanza.

Text as printed in Christ in Song (Revised and Enlarged), 1908, no. 250. Public domain. www.praylock.com/hymnal/dont-forget-the-sabbath

About this text

Words
Fanny Crosby, 1820–1915
Source
Christ in Song (Revised and Enlarged) (1908), no. 250. See the 1908 page
Credited in 1908 as
Fanny Crosby
Public domain
Printed in 1908; the writer died in 1915, more than 100 years ago.

Notes on this text

  • The 1908 page heads the hymn with Exodus 20:8 and prints the music by William B. Bradbury.
  • “to-day” keeps the book’s hyphen, as in its heading “To-day the Saviour Calls”.

Index entry: Hymnary.org. Checked against the page scan on .

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