Midnight Cry

Millennial Harp (1843), Part II, printed pp. 54–55 (PDF 130–131). Three staves (Treble, Second
Treble — **the melody, and the staff the words are printed over** —, and Bass); G major, 2/2.
Three systems on p. 54 and the last one at the top of p. 55, followed by stanzas 2–7 in verse.
The hymnal prints no metre; the stanzas are 6.6.6.6.8.8 (H. M.), and the music repeats the last
line of each stanza.

Ye virgin souls, arise!
With all the dead awake;
Unto salvation wise,
Oil in your vessels take;
Upstarting at the midnight cry,
Behold your heav'nly bridegroom nigh,
Behold your heav'nly bridegroom nigh.

He comes, he comes, to call
The nations to his bar,
And take to glory all
Who meet for glory are ;
Make ready for your free reward ;
Go forth with joy to meet your Lord.

Go, meet him in the sky,
Your everlasting Friend ;
Your head to glorify,
With all his saints ascend ;
Ye pure in heart, obtain the grace
To see, without a veil, his face.

Ye that have here received
The unction from above,
And in his spirit lived,
And thirsted for his love,
Jesus shall claim you for his bride ;
Rejoice with all the sanctified.

Rejoice in glorious hope
Of that great day unknown,
When you shall be caught up
To stand before his throne ;
Called to partake the marriage feast,
And lean on our Immanuel's breast ;

The everlasting doors
Shall soon the saints receive,
Above with angel powers
In glorious joy to live ;
Far from a world of grief and sin,
With God eternally shut in.

Then let us wait to hear
The trumpet's welcome sound ;
To see our Lord appear,
May we be watching found,
Enrobed in righteousness divine,
In which the bride shall ever shine.