Page 188 - Voices in Praise
P. 188

Their high communion find,
        For the might of thine arm we bless Thee,   our         His service is a golden cord
        God, our fathers' God.  1/4                             Close binding human kind. 2/4

        Verse 2                                                 Verse 3
        For the love of Christ constraining,  that bound        Join hands, then, family of the faith,
        their hearts as one;                                    Whate'er your race may be;
        For the faith in truth and freedom                      Who serves my Father as a child
                                                                Is surely kin to me. 3/4
         in which their work was done; For the peace of
        God's evangel   wherewith their feet were shod;         Verse 4
                                                                In Christ now meet both east and west,
        For the might of thine arm we bless Thee,   our         In him meet south and north,
        God, our fathers' God.  2/4                             All Christ-like souls are one in him,
                                                                Throughout the whole wide earth. 4/4
        Verse 3                                                 HOME
        We are watchers of a beacon   whose light must          399 Great is our redeeming Lord
        never die; we are guardians of an altar                 Verse 1
                                                                Great is our redeeming Lord
         that shows Thee ever nigh; We are children of          In power, and truth, and grace;
        Thy freemen   who sleep beneath the sod;                Him, by highest heaven adored,
                                                                His church on earth gives praise.
        For the might of thine arm we bless Thee,   our
        God, our fathers' God.  3/4                             In the city of our God,
                                                                In his holy mount below,
        Verse 4                                                 Publish, spread his name abroad,
        May the shadow of Thy presence   around our             And all his greatness show. 1/4
        camp be spread;
        Baptize us with the courage                             Verse 2
                                                                For your loving kindness, Lord,
        thou gavest to our dead; O keep us in the               We in your temple stay;
        pathway   their saintly feet have trod;                 Here your faithful love record, Your saving
                                                                power display.
        For the might of thine arm we bless Thee,   our
        God, our fathers' God.  4/4                             With your name your praise is known,
        HOME                                                    Glorious your perfections shine;
        398 In Christ there is no east or                       Earth's remotest bounds shall own
        west,                                                   Your works are all divine. 2/4

        Verse 1
        In Christ there is no east or west,                     Verse 3
        In  him no south or north,                              See the gospel church secure,
        But one great fellowship of love                        And founded on a rock;
        Throughout the whole wide earth. 1/4                    All her promises are sure;
                                                                Her bulwarks who can shock?
        Verse 2
        In him shall true hearts everywhere


                                                         Return
   183   184   185   186   187   188   189   190   191   192   193