The Sinner — Warning and Invitation

O, Comfort to the dreary!

No. 415
Metre 7s & 6s. D.
Tune AURELIA.
Words Anon.
Music Samuel S. Wesley.
Key E-flat major
Singing key E♭ major
Time 4/4
4 stanzas

Words

O, Comfort to the dreary!O, Joy to the oppressed!"Come unto Me, ye weary,And I will give you rest."O, come with all your weakness,Come with your load of woe;And learn of him with meeknessAll righteousness to know.

Enslaved of Romish error,Worn out with fruitless pains,Reapers of doubt and terror,Come, cast away your chains!Renounce the superstitionBy all the world preferred;And turn from vain traditionTo His redeeming word.

Ye who the world have courted,And suffered from its spite;Ye who with sin have sported,And felt its serpent bite;Come, learn, your follies quitting,That this world's gain is loss;To Christ's light yoke submitting,Come, and take up the cross.

O come, and make the trial;Christ's service is release;If hard the self-denial,Its fruit is joy and peace.His word your faith defending,Shall nerve you for the strife;Peace all your steps attending;The prize,—eternal life!

About this hymn

As printed As printed: running head «THE SINNER—WARNING AND INVITATION.» (its em dash printed broken in two on this page); hymn number «415» (large), tune name «AURELIA. 7s & 6s. D.» centred over the music (capitals and small capitals), «SAMUEL S. WESLEY.» at the right (capitals and small capitals). Stanza 1 is interlinear, between the staves, one line per system, with «1.» before «O,» (see `lyrics_syllables.txt`). Stanzas 2–4 are printed as text in the left column below the music, under the reference line «492, 246, 357.» in italics (= may also be sung to the tunes of hymns 492, 246 or 357); lines 2, 4, 6 and 8 of each stanza are indented. «Anon.» in italics after stanza 4. The print sets a thin space before «!» and «;» («drear-y !», «oppressed !», «woe ;», «chains !», «preferred ;», «spite ;», «bite ;», «loss ;», «trial ;», «release ;», «strife ;», «attending ;», «life !»); it is closed up here. The printer's curly quotation marks and apostrophes are written straight («"Come», «rest."», «world's», «Christ's»). The stanza numbers of the text column are printed without a period («2», «3», «4»); they are written «2.» … here, like the interlinear «1.», as in the other deliveries of this book. «Me» (stanza 1) is capitalized and «him» (stanza 1, line 7) is lower-case, as printed. Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's.