At the name of Je-sus, every knee shall bow,
Ev-ery tongue con-fess Him King of glo-ry now;
'Tis the Fa-ther's plea-sure we should call Him Lord,
Who from the be-gin-ning was the might-y Word.
Might-y and mys-ter-ious in the high-est height,
God from ev-er-last-ing, ve-ry light of light:
In the Fa-ther's bo-som with the Spi-rit blest,
Love, in love e-ter-nal, rest, in per-fect rest.
At His voice cre-a-tion sprang at once to sight,
All the an-gel fa-ces, all the hosts of light,
Thrones and dom-i-na-tions, stars up-on their way,
All the heaven-ly orders, in their great ar-ray.
Hum-bled for a sea-son, to re-ceive a name
From the lips of sin-ners un-to whom He came,
Faith-ful-ly He bore it, spot-less to the last,
Brought it back vic-tor-ious when from death He passed.
Bore it up tri-um-phant with its hu-man light,
Through all ranks of crea-tures, to the cen-tral height,
To the throne of God-head, to the Fa-ther's breast;
Filled it with the glo-ry of that per-fect rest.
Name Him, bro-thers, name Him with love strong as death
But with awe and won-der and with ba-ted breath!
He is God the Sav-ior, He is Christ the Lord,
Ev-er to be wor-ship-ped, trust-ed and a-dored.
In your hearts en-throne Him; there let Him sub-due
All that is not ho-ly, all that is not true;
Crown Him as your cap-tain in temp-ta-tion's hour;
Let His will en-fold you in its light and power.
Watch, for this Lord Je-sus shall re-turn a-gain,
With His Fa-ther's glo-ry o'er the earth to reign;
For the day is com-ing when each knee shall bow,
So let hearts con-fess Him King of glo-ry now.
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