Christ — Sufferings and Death

Go to dark Gethsemane

No. 331
Metre 7s. 6l.
Tune GETHSEMANE.
Words James Montgomery.
Music Richard Redhead.
Key D major
Time 4/4
3 stanzas

Words

Go to dark Gethsemane,Ye that feel the tempter's power;Your Redeemer's conflict see,Watch with him one bitter hour;Turn not from his griefs away,Learn of Jesus how to pray.

Follow to the judgment-hall;View the Lord of life arraigned;O, the wormwood and the gall!O, the pangs his soul sustained!Shun not suffering, shame, or loss;Learn of him to bear the cross.

Calvary'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 of Jesus how to die.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: running head «CHRIST—SUFFERINGS AND DEATH.»; hymn number «331» (large), tune name «GETHSEMANE. 7s. 6l.» centred over the music (condensed capitals and small capitals), «RICHARD REDHEAD.» at the right (capitals and small capitals). Stanza 1 is interlinear, between the staves, one line per system (three verse lines each), with «1.» before «Go»; under the staves only «Geth-sem-a-ne», «a-way» and «Je-sus» are hyphenated, the other words are printed whole («tempter's», «Redeemer's», «conflict», «bitter»). Stanzas 2–3 are printed as text in two columns below the music, under the reference line «1114, 244, 299.» in bold italic figures (= may also be sung to the tunes of hymns 1114, 244 or 299); lines 2 and 4 of each stanza are indented, lines 5 and 6 are not. «James Montgomery.» in italics after stanza 3. The print sets a thin space before «;», «!» and «:» («power ;», «hour ;», «hall ;», «gall !», «complete :»); it is closed up here. The printer's curly quotation marks and apostrophes are written straight. The text stanzas are numbered «2», «3» without a period in the print; they are written «2.», «3.» here, as in the other deliveries of this book. Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's.