Who Can Declare the Day or Hour?

Who can de­clare the day or hour

When Christ once more shall come

Arrayed in ma­jes­ty and pow­er

To call His peo­ple home?

That day shall come when few sup­pose

The aw­ful sea­son near;

Unlooked for by de­rid­ing foes

Messiah shall ap­pear.

Then all His serv­ants shall re­joice

And songs of tri­umph sing;

While sin­ners trem­ble at the voice

Of their of­fend­ed king.

Where

gr­acious Lord

shall we be found

At that tre­men­dous day?

With Thy eter­nal mer­cy crowned?

Or cast with scorn away?

We could not dare to view Thy face

If Je­sus had not died;

But now we trust His bound­less grace

And all our fears sub­side.

His name is all the plea we make

With this we ven­ture nigh;

Father

re­ceive us for His sake

And leave us not to die.