How sweet and awesome is the place
With Christ within the doors,
While everlasting love displays
The choicest of her stores!
While all our hearts and all our songs
Join to admire the feast
Each of us cry, with thankful tongues
"Lord, why was I a guest?
Why was I made to hear Thy voice
And enter while there's room
When thousands make a wretched choice
And rather starve than come?"
'Twas the same love that spread the feast
That sweetly drew us in
Else we had still refused to taste
And perished in our sin