Music & HymnsChrist, Whose Glory Fills The Skies

"Unto you that fear My Name shall the Sun of Righteousness arise with healing in His wings." Malachi 4:2

Words: Charles Wesley, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1740. James Montgomery called this one of Wesley's finest compositions.

Music: "Ratisbon," Johann Gottlob Werner's Choralbuch zu den neuen protestantischen Gesangbnchern (Leipzig, Germany: 1815); harmony by William Henry Havergal , 1861 (

"Day-Star," Samuel Sebastian Wesley, 1872

Christ, Whose glory fills the skies,
Christ, the true, the only Light,
Sun of Righteousness, arise,
Triumph over the shades of night;
Dayspring from on high be near;
Day-star, in my heart appear.

Dark and cheerless is the morn,
Unaccompanied by Thee;
Joyless is the day's return
Till Thy mercy's beams I see:
Till they inward light impart,
Glad my eyes, and warm my heart.

Visit then this soul of mine;
Pierce the gloom of sin and grief;
Fill me, Radiancy divine,
Scatter all my unbelief;
More and more Thyself display,
Shining to the perfect day.

Hymns supplied through the gracious generosity of the Cyber Hymnal Website