The Celebration Hymnal

326

Blessed Redeemer

1 Up Calv’ry’s mountain one dreadful morn  
Walked Christ, my Savior, weary and worn;  
Facing for sinners death on the cross,  
That He might save them from endless loss.  

Refrain:  
Blessed Redeemer! Precious Redeemer!  
Seems I now see Him on Calvary’s tree;  
Wounded and bleeding, for sinners pleading,  
Blind and unheeding, dying for me!  

2 “Father forgive them,” thus did He pray,  
E’en while His lifeblood flowed fast away.  
Praying for sinners while in such woe,  
No one but Jesus ever loved so! [Refrain]  

3 O how I love Him, Savior and Friend!  
How can my praises ever find end?  
Thro' years unnumbered on heaven’s shore,  
My tongue shall praise Him forevermore. [Refrain]

WORDS: Avis B. Christiansen
MUSIC: HArry Dixon Loes
Theme: Christ: Atonement, Crucifixion, Suffering and Death