Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder. Matthew 26:36
No. 491. Christ our example in suffering.
Ye that feel the tempter’s power,
Your Redeemer’s conflict see,
Watch with Him one bitter hour;
Turn not from his griefs away;
Learn of Jesus Christ to pray.
2. Follow to the judgment-hall,
View the Lord of life arraigned;
O the wormwood and the gall!
O the pangs his soul sustained!
Shun not suffering, shame, or loss,
Learn of Him to bear the cross.
3. Calvary’s mournful mountain climb
There adoring at his feet,
Mark the miracle of Time,
—God’s own sacrifice complete:
“It is finished”—hear the cry;
Learn of Jesus Christ to die.
4. Early hasten to the tomb,
Where they laid his breathless clay;
All is solitude and gloom,
—Who hath taken Him away?
Christ is risen—He meets our eyes:
Savior, teach us so to rise.
James Montgomery wrote the hymn “Christ our example in suffering,” following Christ from Gethsemane to Calvary. However, he does not conclude there, but ends with a stanza on his victorious resurrection.
James Montgomery was born at Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland, November 4, 1771. He was the son of Moravian Brethren missionary parents John and Mary Montgomery. They died on a West Indies mission field, while he was still a young man. He was a poet and the editor of a newspaper called the Sheffield Iris, from 1796 until about 1826.
He died at Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, April 30, 1854, and was buried in Sheffield General Cemetery. Montgomery never married.
“Christ our example in suffering” is written with 6 lines in 7s meter. It appeared as No. 491 (p. 392) in The Christian Psalmist; Or, Hymns, Selected and Original. In the “Hymns on the Passion” section of Hymns Ancient and Modern, this is Hymn 110, and is paired with the tune Gethsemane, arranged by William Henry Monk. (Some sources credit the tune to Christopher Tye) The singing of this hymn may be heard by selecting THIS LINK.
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