Go to Dark Gethsemane

For the radiant preciousness of our Lord Jesus Christ and his love-driven willingness to endure cruel suffering and death in order to bring us new life. Blessed Holy Week to you.

Go to Dark Gethsemane

Text: James Montgomery, 1771-1854

Music: Richard Redhead, 1820-1901

Original Tune: REDHEAD 76, Meter: 77.77.77

1.        Go to dark Gethsemane,

            ye that feel the tempter's power;

            your Redeemer's conflict see,

            watch with him one bitter hour.

            Turn not from his griefs away;

            learn of Jesus Christ to pray.

2.         See him at the judgment hall,

            beaten, bound, reviled, arraigned;

            O the wormwood and the gall!

            O the pangs his soul sustained!

            Shun not suffering, shame, or loss;

            learn of Christ to bear the cross.

3.         Calvary's mournful mountain climb;

            there, adoring at his feet,

            mark that miracle of time,

            God's own sacrifice complete.

            "It is finished!" hear him cry;

            learn of Jesus Christ to die.

4.         Early hasten to the tomb

            where they laid his breathless clay;

            all is solitude and gloom.

            Who has taken him away?

            Christ is risen! He meets our eyes;

            Savior, teach us so to rise.