THE BLOODWASHED PILGRIM
"I see four men walking around in the fire, unbound and unharmed, and
the fourth looks like a son of the gods." Daniel 3:25
Words & Music: Anonymous, before 1932.
I saw a blood washed pilgrim, a sinner saved by grace,
Upon the King's highway, with peaceful, shining face;
Temptations sore beset him, but nothing could afright;
He said, "The yoke is easy, the burden, it is light."
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Then palms of victory, crowns of glory,
Palms of victory I shall wear.
I saw him in the furnace; he doubted not, nor feared,
And in the flames beside him, the Son of God appeared;
Though seven times 'twas heated, with all the tempter's might,
He cried, "The yoke is easy, the burden, it is light."
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'Mid storms, and clouds, and trials, in prison, at the stake,
He leaped for joy, rejoicing, 'twas all for Jesus' sake;
That God should count him worthy, was such supreme delight,
He cried, "The yoke is easy, the burden, is so light."
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I saw him overcoming, through all the swelling strife,
Until he crossed the threshold of God's eternal life;
The crown, the throne, the scepter, the name, the stone so white,
Were his, who found, in Jesus, the yoke and burden light.
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