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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
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