| Christ the Lord is Risen Today |
| "Christ the Lord is risen today," Sons of men and angels say. Raise your joys and triumphs high; Sing ye heavens and earth reply. Love's redeeming work is done, Fought the fight, the battle won. Lo, our Sun's eclipse is over; Lo, He sets in blood no more. Vain the stone, the watch, the seal; Christ has burst the gates of hell. Death in vain forbids His rise; Christ has opened Paradise. Lives again our glorious King; Where, O Death, is now thy sting? Once He died our souls to save; Where thy victory, O Grave? Soar we now where Christ has led, Following our exalted Head. Made like Him, like Him we rise; Ours the cross, the grave, the skies. Hail the Lord of earth and heaven! Praise to thee by both be given! Thee we greet triumphant now: Hail, the Resurrection Thou! Amen. written by Charles Wesley 1739 copyright 1941 Concordia Publishing House |
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