Lesser Known Hymns

Come, Ye Disconsolate

1. Come, ye disconsolate, where'er ye languish; Come to the mercy seat, fervently kneel. Here bring your wounded hearts; here tell your anguish. Earth has no sorrow that heav'n cannot heal.

2. Joy of the desolate, Light of the straying, Hope of the penitent, fadeless and pure! Here speaks the Comforter, tenderly saying, "Earth has no sorrow that heav'n cannot cure."

3. Here see the Bread of Life; see waters flowing Forth from the throne of God, pure from above. Come to the feast of love; come, ever knowing Earth has no sorrow but heav'n can remove.

Text: Thomas Moore, 1779-1852. Verse three, Thomas Hastings, 1784-1872

Music: Samuel Webbe, 1740-1816

Disconsolate: very unhappy and unable to be comforted.

Come Ye Sinners Poor and Needy

1 Come, ye sinners, poor and needy, weak and wounded, sick and sore; Jesus ready stands to save you, full of pity, love, and power.

Refrain: I will arise and go to Jesus, he will embrace me in his arms. In the arms of my dear savior, o there are 10,000 charms.

2 Come, ye thirsty, come and welcome, God's free bounty glorify; true belief and true repentance, ev'ry grace that brings you nigh.

3 Let not conscience make you linger, nor of fitness fondly dream; all the fitness he requireth is to feel your need of him.

4 Come, ye weary, heavy laden, lost and ruined by the fall; if you tarry till you're better, you will never come at all.

5 I will rise and go to Jesus! He will save me from my sin. By the riches of his merit, there is joy and life in him.

Text: Hart, Joseph, was born in London in 1712. His early life is involved in obscurity. His education was fairly good; and from the testimony of his brother-in-law, and successor in the ministry in Jewin Street, the Rev. John Hughes, "his civil calling was" for some time "that of a teacher of the learned languages." His early life, according to his own Experience which he prefaced to his Hymns, was a curious mixture of loose conduct, serious conviction of sin, and endeavours after amendment of life, and not until Whitsuntide, 1757, did he realize a permanent change, which was brought about mainly through his attending divine service at the Moravian Chapel, in Fetter Lane, London, and hearing a sermon on Rev. iii. 10. During the next two years many of his most earnest and impassioned hymns were written.

Tune: From Southern Harmony American folk tune.