It is finished! Blessed Jesus

It is finished! Blessed Jesus. William Dalrymple Maclagan* (1826-1910). Written for the Second Edition of A&M (1875), where it had ten stanzas, and was in the section entitled ‘Hymns on the Passion’. It was shortened to eight stanzas in EH, omitting stanzas 4 and 6: 4. See! He comes, a willing Victim, Unresisting hither led; Passing from the Cross of sorrow To the mansions of the dead. 6. For Himself proclaims the story Of His own Incarnate life, And the death He died to save us, Victor in that awful strife. EH made slight verbal alterations (stanza 3 line 1 is ‘hidden realms of darkness’ instead of ‘gloomy realms’ in 1875), and placed the hymn at...