Hymn
How Happy Are They
O how happy are they,
Who the Savior obey,
And have laid up their treasures above!
Tongue can never express
The sweet comfort and peace
Of a soul in its earliest love.
That sweet comfort was mine,
When the favor divine
I secured in the blood of the Lamb;
What a joy I received
When my heart first believed!
What a heaven in Jesus’ dear name!
I sought for rest at Jesus' feet,
In Him I found my joy complete!
To me no good thing He denies;
My soul He satisfies!
’Twas a heaven below
My Redeemer to know,
And the angels could do nothing more
Than to fall at His feet,
And the story repeat,
And the Lover of sinners adore.
Jesus all the day long
Was my joy and my song:
O that all His salvation might see!
"He hath loved me," I cried,
"He hath suffered and died,
To redeem even rebels like me."
O the rapturous height
Of that holy delight
Which I felt in the life-giving blood!
Of my Savior possessed,
I was perfectly blessed,
As if filled with the fullness of God.
O how happy are they,
Who the Savior obey,
And have laid up their treasures above!
Tongue can never express
The sweet comfort and peace
Of a soul in its earliest love.
How Happy Are They — Text from Victory Songs, 1920. Public domain. https://yeshuanow.com/hymns/how-happy-are-they
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Questions about this hymn
Who wrote How Happy Are They?
The words of How Happy Are They were written by Charles Wesley; the version here was published in 1920. The library holds 105 more hymns by Charles Wesley, including How Can A Sinner Know and The Prospect Joyous.
Is How Happy Are They public domain?
Yes. The words here are taken from Victory Songs, published in 1920. Works published before 1931 are out of copyright in the United States, so you can print, project, perform and record this hymn freely. How we source and check every hymn.
What is the metre of How Happy Are They?
How Happy Are They is in 11.9.11.9.