Indexes for The Sacred Harp, 2025 Edition
399b Happy Christian
Words: Charles Wesley, 1749
Music: Arr. B. E. Cunningham, 1935
Meter: 6,6,9,6,6,9.
Copyright: 1936 Sacred Harp Publishing Company
Oh, how happy are they
Who their Savior obey
And have laid up their treasures above;
Tongue can never express
The sweet comfort and peace
Of a soul in its earliest love.
That sweet comfort was mine
When the favor divine
I first found in the blood of the Lamb;
When at first I believed,
What true joy I received,
What a haven in Jesus’ sweet name.
’Twas a heaven below
My Redeemer to know,
And the angels could do nothing more
Than to fall at His feet
And the story repeat
And the lover of sinners adore.
Who their Savior obey
And have laid up their treasures above;
Tongue can never express
The sweet comfort and peace
Of a soul in its earliest love.
That sweet comfort was mine
When the favor divine
I first found in the blood of the Lamb;
When at first I believed,
What true joy I received,
What a haven in Jesus’ sweet name.
’Twas a heaven below
My Redeemer to know,
And the angels could do nothing more
Than to fall at His feet
And the story repeat
And the lover of sinners adore.