Come see the place where Jesus lay
Come see the place where Jesus lay. James Montgomery* (1771-1854).
In JJ, p. 251, there is precise information about this hymn. It was written for ‘The Seventh Anniversary of the Sheffield and Attercliffe Missionary Union in aid of the London Missionary Society’, and was first sung in Howard Street Independent Chapel, Sheffield on Easter Sunday, April 2nd, 1820. In leaflet form, it was signed ‘J.M.’
It was included in Montgomery’s The Christian Psalmist (Glasgow, 1825) and, with minor alterations of punctuation, in his Original Hymns (1853). It was entitled ‘The Power of Christ’s Resurrection’, and was obviously suitable for Easter Day. It had six stanzas:
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