Jesus Is Risen (Kendall)

It is a day of glad­ness

This bless­èd East­er morn

O day of ban­ished sad­ness

The day when hope was born;

A time of great re­joic­ing

When men and an­gels sing

With loud ho­san­nas voic­ing

The praise of Christ the King.

Jesus is ris­en! O swell the re­frain;

Jesus the Cru­ci­fied liv­eth again!

Grave

thou art con­quered;

O Death

thou art vain!

Jesus is ris­en

and liv­eth again!

With joy our voic­es rais­ing

We join the glad ac­claim

To tell His strength amaz­ing

And praise His match­less name;

For in the East­er’s break­ing

Long cen­tu­ries ago

The Son of God was wak­ing

Triumphant o’er His foe.

O tell the East­er sto­ry

How Je­sus burst the tomb

And pierced with shafts of glo­ry

Our night of grief and gloom.

No more death’s sting shall harm us;

No more we fear the grave;

No more can sin alarm us;

The ris­en Christ doth save.

O souls that need sal­va­tion

As far from Christ you stray

Hear now His in­vi­ta­tion

Make this your East­er day;

The Christ is loud­ly cry­ing

Amid earth’s storm and strife

To souls in tres­pass dy­ing—

I bring abun­dant life.