Devotional for Good Friday

 
Behold the Saviour of mankind

Nail’d to the shameful tree;

How vast the love that him inclined

To bleed and die for thee!

 

Hark! how he groans, while nature shakes,

And earth’s strong pillars bend:

The temple’s veil in sunder breaks,

The solid marbles rend.

 

‘Tis done! The precious ransom’s paid!

Receive my soul! he cries:

See where he bows his sacred head;

He bows his head, and dies.

 

But soon he’ll break death’s envious chain,  

And in full glory shine:

O Lamb of God, was ever pain,

Was ever love like thine?

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