Christ appears! my sin and sadness

Christ appears! My sin and sadness
Lord, thy sight
Puts to flight:
Now I serve with gladness.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Serve the Lord with gladness.”—[Psalm] c. 1. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 318.
Publishing: Public Domain