[from] Hymns of the Church
[1] The Mellow eve is gliding.
[2] Abide with me.
[3] Come Holy Spirit.
[4] Nearer my God to thee.
[5] In heavenly love abiding.
[6] Glorious things of thee are spoken.
[7] Tarry with me.
[8] Just as I am.

To the Misses BRISTOL
Jersey City.
"Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken" (31 Oct 1870)
[No. 6 of 8]
Set to Music by
John Rogers Thomas, 1830-1896.
[Words by John Newton (1725-1807), based on Psalm 87:3]

New York: William A. Pond & Co., 547 Broadway
Boston: Koppitz, Prufer & Co.
Cincinnati: C. Y. Fonda
San Francisco: M. Gray
New Orleans: L. Grunewald
Milwaukee: H. N. Hempsted
[Lithographer:?]  Robert Teller, 107 Prince St., New York
Plate No. 7908
[Source: 1870-03295@LoC]

Glorious things of thee are spoken, 
Zion, city of our God: 
He, whose word can not be broken, 
Form’d thee for His own abode; 
On the rock of ages founded, 
What can shake thy pure repose? 
With salvation’s walls surrounded, 
Then may’st smile at all thy foes. 

See the streams of living waters, 
Springing from eternal love, 
We’ll supply thy sons and daughters, 
And all fear of want remove; 
Who can faint while such a river, 
Ever flows their thirst t’assuage? 
Grace, which like the Lord, the giver, 
Never fails from age to age. 

Saviour, if of Zion’s city, 
I through grace a member am, 
Let the world deride or pity, 
I will glorify thy name; 
Fading is the worldling’s pleasure, 
All his boasted pomp and show; 
Solid joys and lasting treasure, 
None but Zion’s children know.