Devotional for Easter

 Thank and praise Jehovah’s Name,

For his mercies firm and sure;

From eternity the same,

To eternity endure.

 

Let the ransom’d thus rejoice,

Gathered out of every land;

As the people of his choice,

Pluck’d from the destroyer’s hand.

 

Let the elders praise the Lord,

Him let all the people praise,

When they meet with one accord,

In his courts on holy days.

 

Praise him, ye who know his love;

Praise him from the depths of love beneath;

Praise him in the heights above;

Praise your Maker, all that breathe.

 

For his truth and mercy stand,

Past, and present, and to be,

Like the years of his right hand,

Like his own eternity.

Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church: With Tunes for Congregational Worship (1857, Carlton and Porter, New York).