At the name of Je-sus,
Ev-ery knee shall bow,
Ev-ery tongue con-fess Him
King of glo-ry now;
'Tis the Fa-ther's plea-sure
We should call Him Lord,
Who from the be-gin-ning
Was the might-y Word.
Might-y and mys-ter-ious
In the high-est height,
God from ev-er-last-ing,
Ver-y light of light:
In the Fa-ther's bo-som
With the Spi-rit blest,
Love, in love e-ter-nal,
Rest, in per-fect rest.
At His voice cre-a-tion
Sprang at once to sight,
All the an-gel fa-ces,
All the hosts of light,
Thrones and dom-i-na-tions,
Stars up-on their way,
All the heav'n-ly or-ders,
In their great ar-ray.
Hum-bled for a sea-son,
To re-ceive a name
From the lips of sin-ners
Un-to whom He came,
Faith-ful-ly He bore it,
Spot-less to the last,
Brought it back vic-to-ri-ous
When from death He passed.
Bore it up tri-um-phant
With its hu-man light,
Through all ranks of crea-tures,
To the cen-tral height,
To the throne of God-head,
To the Fa-ther's breast;
Filled it with the glo-ry
Of that per-fect rest.
Name Him, bro-thers, name Him
With love strong as death
But with awe and won-der
And with ba-ted breath!
He is God the Sa-vior,
He is Christ the Lord,
Ev-er to be wor-shipped,
Trust-ed and a-dored.
In your hearts en-throne Him;
There let Him sub-due
All that is not ho-ly,
All that is not true;
Crown Him as your cap-tain
In temp-ta-tion's hour;
Let His will en-fold you
In its light and pow'r.
Watch, for this Lord Je-sus
Shall re-turn a-gain,
With His Fa-ther's glo-ry
O'er the earth to reign;
For the day is com-ing
When each knee shall bow,
So let hearts con-fess Him
King of glo-ry now.