Good Friday 2021

 

Go to dark Gethsemane, ye that feel the tempter's power;

Your Redeemer's conflict see, watch with Him one bitter hour,

Turn not from His griefs away; learn of Jesus Christ to pray.

 

Follow to the judgment hall; view the Lord of life arraigned;

O the wormwood and the gall! O the pangs His soul sustained!

Shun not suffering, shame, or loss; learn of Him to bear the cross.

 

Calvary's mournful mountain climb; there, adoring at His feet,

Mark that miracle of time, God's own sacrifice complete.

"It is finished!" hear the cry; learn of Jesus Christ to die.

 

Early hasten to the tomb where they laid His breathless clay;

All is solitude and gloom. Who hath taken Him away?

Christ is risen! He meets our eyes; Savior, teach us so to rise.