978    L.M.     Samuel Medley
“Blessed are the poor in spirit.” Matt. 5. 3; Luke 6. 20

1 How blessed are they who truly see
  Their emptiness and poverty;
  Whose souls are humbled in the dust,
  And who in Jesus only trust!

2 Glad they renounce their former pride,
  And wholly in his name confide;
  Only in him they make their boast,
  Who came to seek and save the lost.

3 They’re vile and poor in their own eyes,
  But Jesus’ love they highly prize;
  They never think they’re laid too low
  If Jesus on them pity show.

4 To be the meanest they’re content,
  So Jesus but their souls present
  With pardoning grace and heavenly love,
  To fit them for the joys above.

5 These are the souls whom Christ will bless
  With all the riches of his grace;
  And these are they who soon shall rise
  To a bright kingdom in the skies.