Text: | Children of God, reach out to one another! |
Author: | John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) |
Tune: | INTERCESSOR |
Composer: | Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918) |
1 Children of God, reach out to one another!
Where pity dwells, the peace of God is there;
to worship rightly is to love each other,
each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer.
2 For he whom Jesus loved has truly spoken:
the holier worship which God deigns to bless
restores the lost, and binds the spirit broken,
and feeds the widow and the fatherless.
3 Follow with reverent steps the great example
of him whose holy work was doing good;
so shall the wide earth seem our Father's temple,
each loving life a psalm of gratitude.
4 Then shall all shackles fall; the stormy clangour
of wild war music o'er the earth shall cease;
love shall tread out the baleful fire of anger,
and in its ashes plant the tree of peace.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Children of God, reach out to one another! |
Author: | John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) (alt.) |
Meter: | 11 10 11 10 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2008 |
Scripture: | ; ; ; |
Topic: | Our Response to Christ: In Discipleship; Our Response to God : in the worship of God's house; Church: Worship(2 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | INTERCESSOR |
Composer: | Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918) |
Meter: | 11 10 11 10 |
Key: | g minor |