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Go to Dark Gethsemane
1. Go to dark Gethsemane,
All who feel the tempter's power;
Your Redeemer's conflict see,
Watch with Him one bitter hour;
Turn not from His griefs away,
Learn from Jesus Christ to pray.
2. 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 from Christ to bear the cross.
3. Calvary's mournful mountain climb;
There, adoring at His feet,
Mark the miracle of time,
God's own sacrifice complete;
"It is finished!" hear Him cry;
Learn from Jesus Christ to die.
4. Early hasten to the tomb
Where they laid His breathless clay:
All is solitude and gloom.
Who has taken Him away?
Christ is risen! He meets our eyes.
Savior, teach us so to rise.
WORDS: James Montgomery, 1820
MUSIC: , 1825; alt.Richard Redhead, 1853
Scripture: Matthew 26:36-39 Mark 14:32-42 Mark 15:1 Luke 22:39-46 John 19:30
Theme: Holy Week