Yesterday, with Exultation (EN 4611)

EN 4611 Yesterday, with Exultation

Acts.7.56

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Yesterday, with exultation,

Joined the world in celebration,

Of her promised Savior’s birth;

Yesterday the angel nation

Poured the strains of jubilation

O’er the Monarch born on earth.

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But today o’er death victorious,

By his faith and actions glorious,

By his miracles renowned,

See the Deacon triumph gaining,

’Midst the faithless faith sustaining,

First of holy martyrs found.

3

Onward, champion, falter never,

Sure of sure reward forever,

Holy Stephen, persevere;

Perjured witnesses confounding,

Satan’s synagogues astounding

By thy doctrine true and clear.

4

Thine own Witness is in Heaven,

True and faithful, to thee given,

Witness of thy blamelessness;

By thy name a crown implying,

Meet it is thou shouldst be dying

For the crown of righteousness.

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For the crown that fadeth never

Bear the torturer’s brief endeavor;

Victory waits to end the strife;

Death shall be thy life’s beginning,

And life’s losing be the winning

Of the true and better life.

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Filled with God’s most Holy Spirit,

See the Heav’n thou shalt inherit,

Stephen, gaze into the skies;

There God’s glory steadfast viewing,

Thence thy victor strength renewing,

Pant for thy eternal prize.

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See, as Jewish foes invade thee,

See how Jesus stands to aid thee,

Stands at God’s right hand on high:

Tell how opened heaven is shown thee,

Tell how Jesus waits to own thee,

Tell it with thy latest cry.

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As the dying martyr kneeleth,

For his murderers he appealeth,

For their madness grieving sore;

Then in Christ he sleepeth sweetly,

And with Christ he reigneth meetly,

Martyr firstfruits, evermore.

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