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Text:The Church Has Waited Long
Author:Horatius Bonar (1808-1889)
Tune:GARDEN CITY
Composer:Horatio W. Parker (1863-1919)

217. The Church Has Waited Long

1 The church has waited long
Her absent Lord to see;
And still in loneliness she waits,
A friendless stranger she.

2 How long, O Lord our God,
Holy and true and good,
Wilt Thou not judge Thy suffering church,
Her sighs and tears and blood?

3 We long to hear Thy voice,
To see Thee face to face,
To share Thy crown and glory then,
As now we share Thy grace.

4 Come, Lord, and wipe away
The curse, the sin, the stain,
And make this blighted world of ours
Thine own fair world again.

Text Information
First Line: The church has waited long
Title: The Church Has Waited Long
Author: Horatius Bonar (1808-1889)
Meter: S.M.
Publication Date: 1985
Topic: Jesus Christ: Second Advent
Tune Information
Name: GARDEN CITY
Composer: Horatio W. Parker (1863-1919) (1890)
Meter: S.M.
Incipit: 56132 15613 21352
Key: A♭ Major



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