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<h2>HOW SWEET AND AWESOME IS THIS PLACE</h2>
<p align="center"><h3>&#8220;A certain man made a great supper, and bade many.&#8221; Luke 14:16</h3></p>
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<p><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_w_a_watts_i.jpg" alt="Isaac Watts (1674-1748)" align="right" hspace="15" vspace="5" width="132.666666666667" height="184.666666666667"><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_w_a_watts_i.html" target="_blank">Isaac Watts</a>, <em>Hymns and Sacred Songs</em>, 1707.</p>
<p><em>Music:</em> &#8220;St. Columba,&#8221; ancient Irish melody </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_s_t_stcolumb.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<p>How sweet and awesome is this place<br>
[<em>originally</em> How sweet and aweful is the place]<br>
With Christ within the doors,<br>
While everlasting love displays<br>
The choicest of her stores!</p>
<p>Here every bowel of our God<br>
With soft compassion rolls;<br>
Here peace and pardon bought with blood<br>
Is food for dying souls.</p>
<p>While all our hearts and all our songs<br>
Join to admire the feast,<br>
Each of us cry, with thankful tongues,<br>
&#8220;Lord, why was I a guest?</p>
<p>&#8220;Why was I made to hear Thy voice,<br>
And enter while there&#8217;s room,<br>
When thousands make a wretched choice,<br>
And rather starve than come?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8217;Twas the same love that spread the feast<br>
That sweetly drew us in;<br>
Else we had still refused to taste,<br>
And perished in our sin.</p>
<p>Pity the nations, O our God!<br>
Constrain the earth to come;<br>
Send Thy victorious Word abroad,<br>
And bring the strangers home.</p>
<p>We long to see Thy churches full,<br>
That all the chosen race<br>
May with one voice, and heart and soul,<br>
Sing Thy redeeming grace.</p>
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