On This Pleasant Sabbath Day

On this plea­sant Sab­bath day

Let us sing a joy­ful lay

To the God who reigns

In earth and Heav’n ab­ove.

He has kept us thro’ the week

And to­day His smiles we seek

And we hum­bly ask

His bless­ing and His love.

Sing

O sing a joy­ful song

Youthful hearts the strain pro­long

Let us ask the Lord we praise

In our best and sweet­est lays

For His bless­ing

In our hap­py Sab­bath throng.

He has kept us free from harm

By His kind and migh­ty arm

And He gives us here

His Word to guide our feet;

May we learn it now in love

And direct our thoughts ab­ove

Where about His throne

The hap­py angels meet.

Praise to Him who will not fail

When our ene­mies as­sail

And when dan­gers clus­ter

Thickly where we stand

He will bring us safe at last

Where the dan­gers are all past

To our hap­py homes

In His ce­les­ti­al land.