Happy the man who uses right

Verse 1
Happy the man who uses right
Public calamities,
Whose faith in every fearful sight
His Lord approaching sees:
Famine, and pestilence, and war
Are tokens of that day,
Earthquakes, and prodigies prepare
The great Redeemer’s way.

Verse 2
Good out of all these ills he brings,
And serves his own design,
While ushering in the King of kings
The heavenly armies join;
Dissolv’d the universal frame,
That Jesus may appear,
And nature’s dying groans proclaim
Her New-creator here!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Great earthquakes shall be in diverse places, and famine, and pestilences, and fearful sights, and great signs shall there be from heaven.'—[Luke 21,] v. 11.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 276.
Publishing: Public Domain