Brethren, We Have Met to Worship

George Atkins, 1819.

1. Brethren, we have met to worship and adore the Lord our God; 
   Will you pray with all your power, while we try to preach the Word? 
   All is vain unless the Spirit of the Holy One comes down; 
   Brethren, pray, and holy manna will be showered all around.
2. Brethren, see poor sinners round you slumb’ring on the brink of woe; 
   Death is coming, hell is moving, can you bear to let them go? 
   See our fathers and our mothers, and our children sinking down; 
   Brethren, pray, and holy manna will be showered all around.
3. Sisters, will you join and help us? Moses’ sister aided him; 
   Will you help the trembling mourners who are struggling hard with sin? 
   Tell them all about the Savior, tell them that He will be found; 
   Sisters, pray, and holy manna will be showered all around.
4. Is there here a trembling jailer, seeking grace, and filled with tears? 
   Is there here a weeping Mary, pouring forth a flood of tears? 
   Brethren, join your cries to help them; sisters, let your prayers abound; 
   Pray, oh, pray that holy manna may be scattered all around.
5. Let us love our God supremely, let us love each other, too; 
   Let us love and pray for sinners, till our God makes all things new. 
   Then He’ll call us home to Heaven, at His table we’ll sit down; 
   Christ will gird Himself and serve us with sweet manna all around.