THE HOUR OF SUPPER

A. C. Craig

Oh bring them in, the supper feast is spread

And free to all!

God’s wondrous grace the lordly table laid

For great and small.

Come! is the invitation freely given

By Him who came from glory there in heaven.

 

The royal invitation comes to you;

Accept it now!

Extended by the Holy Spirit too

While grace allows.

No other feast with such provision made,

For with great cost has been the table laid.

 

Oh bring them in! The city yields its store

Of ruined man,

The crippled and the lame, the blind and poor,

From street and lane.

Three thousand brought by one great act of power

Into God’s house, while reigns the supper hour.

 

The hour of supper! What a word is this

To hungry souls.

More wondrous still, the fulness of God’s grace

Provides the whole!

Alone the cost was borne by His blest Son;

Alone by Him the wondrous work was done.