Adventist Pioneer Library

Second Advent

The Lord is coming! glad and free

  • No. 885
  • Metre L. M.
  • Words Mary A. Steward.
  • 5 stanzas
  • Words only in the original

Words

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1

The Lord is coming! glad and freeProclaim the note of jubilee.Arouse, ye nations, countless throng,Ring out the tidings loud and long.

2

This earth, with her ten thousand wrongs,Will soon be tuned to nobler songs;Our praise shall then, in realms of light,With all his universe unite.

3

The Lord is coming! herald, cry;For our redemption draweth nigh:The great glad day of sin's eclipseIs trembling on heaven's finger-tips.

4

The trumpet sounds o'er land and sea,And heaven rolls back the melody;The sleeping nations of the deadAwake, and leave their earth-dark bed.

5

The Lord, our Saviour, Prince of heaven,Descends 'mid clouds all thunder riven;Look up, ye saints, behold your King,He comes deliverance to bring.

About this hymn

As printed Words only. As printed: hymn number «885» (large) in the right column of p. 296, under the end of hymn 884 («Reginald Heber.»), with the reference line «212, 316, 914.» in italic figures beside it (sing to the tunes of hymns 212 PARK STREET, 316 OLDEN or 914 WOODWORTH, all L. M.; no meter is printed — four lines of eight syllables, L. M., like the referenced tunes). Five stanzas numbered «1»–«5» without periods (written «1.»–«5.» here, as in the other deliveries of this book), followed by «Mary A. Steward.» in italics at the foot of the right column. The first word «THE» is set in capitals and small capitals; written «The». The print sets a thin space before «!», «;» and «:» («coming !», «songs ;», «cry ;», «nigh :», «melody ;», «riven ;»); it is closed up here. «sin's», «heaven's», «o'er» and «'mid» with straight apostrophes, «finger-tips» and «earth-dark» hyphenated, as printed. Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's.

Source
The Seventh-day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book (Battle Creek: Review & Herald, 1886/1888)
Where
Second Advent · No. 885 · printed page 296
Checked
lyrics verified (fork reading; parent check pending) · 2026-10-02