The people still go forth to meet

Verse 1
The people still go forth to meet,
And Jesus with hosannas greet,
The King of saints, the God supreme,
His Sender comes reveal’d in Him.

Verse 2
Receive him in Jehovah’s name,
Jehovah is with Christ the same,
Receive him in his Spirit bestow’d,
The fulness of the tri-une God!

Verse 3
He comes, He comes, on earth to reign,
He brings us back our power again,
The sovereignty which Adam lost,
With Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

Verse 4
In us who Christ our God adore,
He doth his kingdom here restore,
And in our faithful hearts we prove
The reigning power of Jesus love.

Verse 5
The Author of our joy we bless,
The King of peace and righteousness,
Triumphant in the earnest given;
For present love is present heaven.

Verse 6
We soon shall meet him in the sky,
And ceaseless hallelujah cry,
Palms in our hands, as conquerors, bear,
And glory on our foreheads wear!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Much people took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna, blessed is the King of Israel, that cometh in the name of the Lord.’—[John 12,] v. [12,] 13." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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 485.
Publishing: Public Domain