How Sweet And Awesome Is The Place seems to be the modern name for Isaac Watt’s hymn How Sweet And Aweful Is The Place.
Apparently trying to explain aweful means the same thing as awesome is a lost cause. Which is true, I guess.
This hymn fell out of usage in the twentieth century, probably as much for its theme as the word aweful.
It goes really well with the tune ST COLUMBA.
The lyrics:
1
How sweet and awesome is the place
With Christ within the doors,
While everlasting love displays
The choicest of her stores.
2
While all our hearts and all our songs
Join to admire the feast,
Each of us cry, with thankful tongue,
“Lord, why was I a guest?
3
“Why was I made to hear your voice,
And enter while there’s room,
When thousands make a wretched choice,
And rather starve than come?”
4
‘Twas the same love that spread the feast
That sweetly drew us in;
Else we had still refused to taste,
And perished in our sin.
5
Pity the nations, O our God,
Constrain the earth to come;
Send thy victorious Word abroad,
And bring the strangers home.
6
We long to see your churches full,
That all the chosen race
May, with one voice and heart and soul,
Sing your redeeming grace.
Here’s a version recorded at a Together For The Gospel conference. Complete with aweful.
The track is available here.
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