Worship — The Sabbath
The God that made the earth
- No. 252
- Metre H. M.
- Tune LENOX.
- Words R. F. Cottrell.
- Music Lewis Edson.
- Key B-flat major
- Singing key A♭ major
- Time 4/4
- 5 stanzas
Words
⤢ Full screenThe God that made the earth,
And all the worlds on high,
Who gave all creatures birth,
In earth, and sea, and sky,
After six days in work employed,
Upon the seventh a rest enjoyed.
The Sabbath-day was blessed,
Hallowed, and sanctified;
It was Jehovah's rest,
And so it must abide;
'T was set apart before the fall,
'T was made for man, 't was made for all.
And when from Sinai's mount,
Amidst the fire and smoke,
Jehovah did recount,
And all his precepts spoke,
He claimed the rest-day as his own,
And wrote it with his law on stone.
The Son of God appeared
With tidings of great joy;
God's precepts he revered,
He came not to destroy;
None of the law was set aside,
But every tittle ratified.
Our Saviour did not die
To render null and void
The law of the Most High,
Which cannot be destroyed;
But, bruised for us, our stripes he bore,—
We'll go in peace and sin no more.
About this hymn
As printed As printed: running head «WORSHIP—THE SABBATH.»; hymn number «252» (large), tune name «LENOX. H. M.» centred over the music (capitals and small capitals), «LEWIS EDSON.» at the right (capitals and small capitals). Stanza 1 is interlinear, between the staves, one line per system, with «1.» before «The»; under the staves the fifth verse line is printed twice, because the music sings it twice: «Aft - er six days in work employed, / Aft - er six days in work employed, Up - on the seventh a rest en - joyed.» (see `lyrics_syllables.txt`); the stanza below is the poem, six lines, as stanzas 2–5 are printed. Stanzas 2–5 are printed as text in the left column below the music, under the reference line «167, 254, 359.» in italics (= may also be sung to the tunes of hymns 167, 254 or 359); the last two lines of stanza 5 run over to the top of the right column. «R. F. Cottrell.» in italics after stanza 5. The print sets a thin space before «;» («sanctified ;», «abide ;», «joy ;», «destroy ;», «destroyed ;»); it is closed up here. The printer's curly apostrophes are written straight («Jehovah's», «'T was», «'t was», «Sinai's», «God's», «We'll»). Lines 2 and 4 of each stanza are indented in the print, lines 5 and 6 are set at the left. The stanza numbers of the text column are printed without a period («2», «3», «4», «5»); they are written «2.» … here, like the interlinear «1.», as in the other deliveries of this book. Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's.
- Source
- The Seventh-day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book (Battle Creek: Review & Herald, 1886/1888)
- Where
- Worship — The Sabbath · No. 252 · printed page 84
- Checked
- score verified (fork reading; parent check pending) · 2026-10-01
