When strangers stand and hear me tell
The same words as 2 hymnals printed them. Pick two versions to see every change between them: words added, dropped or altered, and verses left out.
10 words changed · 1 stanza only in Hymns for Second Advent Believers #105
Verse 1
When strangers stand and hear me tell
What beauties in my Saviour dwell,
Where he is gone they fain would know,
That they may seek and love him too.
Verse 1
When strangers stand and hear me tell
What beauties in my Saviour dwell,
Where he is gone they fain would know,
That they may seek and love him too.
Verse 2
O may my spirit daily rise
On wings of faith above the skies,
Till I shall make my last remove,
To dwell for ever with my love.
Verse 2
O may my spirit daily rise
On wings of faith above the skies,
Till I shall make my last remove,
To dwell forever with my love.
Verse 3
In Paradise, within the gates,In higher entertainment waits,—
Fruits new and old laid up in store,There we shall feed–but want no more.
Verse 3
In Paradise, within the gates,
A higher entertainment waits,—
Fruits new and old laid up in store,
There we shall hunger nevermore.
Verse 4
Come, my beloved, haste away,
Cut short the hours of thy delay;
Fly, like a youthful hart or roe,
Over the hills where spices grow.
Not in this version