The Comforter Has Come

Verse 1
O spread the tid­ings ’round, (Isa. 52:7)
Wherever man is found, (Matt. 28:19-20, Mark 16:15)
Wherever hu­man hearts
And hu­man woes ab­ound;
Let ev­ery Christ­ian tongue
Proclaim the joy­ful sound: (Ps. 89:15)
The Com­fort­er has come! (John 14:16, John 14:26, John 15:26, John 16:7)

Chorus
The Com­fort­er has come, (John 14:16, John 14:26, John 15:26, John 16:7)
The Com­fort­er has come!
The Ho­ly Ghost from Heav’n, (I Pet. 1:12, Acts 2:1-4)
The Fa­ther’s pro­mise giv’n; (Luke 24:49, Acts 1:4-5, Acts 2:33)
O spread the tid­ings ’round,
Wherever man is found—
The Com­fort­er has come! (John 14:16, John 14:26, John 15:26, John 16:7)

Verse 2
The long, long night is past;
The morn­ing breaks at last; (Isa. 60:1-2, Rom. 13:12)
And hushed the dread­ful wail
And fu­ry of the blast,
As o’er the gold­en hills
The day ad­vanc­es fast!
The Com­fort­er has come!

Verse 3
Lo, the great King of kings, (I Tim. 6:15, Rev. 17:14, Rev. 19:16)
With heal­ing in His wings, (Mal. 4:2)
To ev­ery cap­tive soul
A full de­liv­er­ance brings; (Isa. 61:1, Luke 4:18, Ps. 146:7, Isa. 42:7, Zech. 9:11-12)
And through the va­cant cells
The song of tri­umph rings: (Acts 16:25-26)
The Com­fort­er has come!

Verse 4
O bound­less love di­vine! (Eph. 3:18-19)
How shall this tongue of mine (Ps. 40:5)
To won­der­ing mor­tals tell
The match­less grace di­vine—
That I, a child of sin,
Should in His im­age shine! (II Cor. 3:18, Rom. 8:29, Ps. 17:15)
The Com­fort­er has come!

Verse 5
Sing, till the ech­oes fly
Above the vault­ed sky,
And all the saints ab­ove
To all be­low re­ply,
In strains of end­less love,
The song that ne’er will die:
The Com­fort­er has come!