TELL me What the Christian needeth,
As he rubs the heavenly race;
Tell me how endured the faithful,
Who God’s promises embrace;
Then you’ll find the names which follow
Give each letter in its place.
He wrote the truth for all to read,
Who came to view the dreadful deed;
He vainly sought to keep a part
From Him, whose Spirit reads the heart.
Jehovah bears a glorious Name,
And calls His people by the same.
God sent him with His Name to prove
In their distress His power and love.
A Type of heaven where there is
The tree of life, whose fruit is bliss.
The Name the Church of. God shall bear,
When reigning o’er creation fair.
And now another Type of heaven,
Possessed by twelve, defiled by seven.
There did the weary pilgrims rest,
With cooling springs and palm-trees blest.