An open gateway into heaven;
Here may we sit at Jesus' feet,
And feel our deepest sins forgiven.
Here may desponding care look up;
And sorrow lay its burden down,
Or learn, of him, to drink the cup,
To bear the cross, and win the crown.
3Here may the sick and wandering soul,
To truth still blind, to sin a slave,
Find better than Bethesda's pool,