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In a garden—man was placed, Meet abode for innocence, With his Maker’s image graced: —Sin crept in and drove him thence, Through the world, a wretch undone, Seeking rest and finding none. In a garden—on that night When our Saviour was betrayed, With what world-redeeming might, In his agony he prayed! Till he drank the vengeance up, And with mercy filled the cup. In a garden—on the cross, When the spear His heart had riven, And for earth’s primeval loss Heaven’s best ransom had been given, Jesus rested from His woes, Jesus from the dead arose. Emblem of the church above! Where, as in their native clime, ’Midst the garden of His love, Rescued from the rage of time, Saints, as trees of life shall stand, Planted by His own right hand.
In a garden—man was placed, Meet abode for innocence, With his Maker’s image graced: —Sin crept in and drove him thence, Through the world, a wretch undone, Seeking rest and finding none. In a garden—on that night When our Saviour was betrayed, With what world-redeeming might, In his agony he prayed! Till he drank the vengeance up, And with mercy filled the cup. In a garden—on the cross, When the spear His heart had riven, And for earth’s primeval loss Heaven’s best ransom had been given, Jesus rested from His woes, Jesus from the dead arose. Emblem of the church above! Where, as in their native clime, ’Midst the garden of His love, Rescued from the rage of time, Saints, as trees of life shall stand, Planted by His own right hand.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- J. Montgomery (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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Page 246 · printed citation: J. Montgomery · subject: GARDEN—EDEN—GETHSEMANE
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