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Author: Horatius Bonar Hymnal: The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book #1019 (1886) Topics: The Church Zeal and Union Lyrics: 1 Church of the ever-living God,
The Father's gracious choice,
Amid the voices of this earth
How feeble is thy voice!
2 A little flock! so called by Him
Who bought thee with his blood;
A little flock, disowned of men,
But owned and loved of God.
3 Not many rich or noble ones,
Not many great or wise;
They whom God makes his kings and priests
Are poor in human eyes.
4 But the chief Shepherd comes at length,
Their feeble days are o'er,
No more a handful in the earth,
A little flock no more.
5 No more a lily among thorns,
Weary and faint and few;
But countless as the stars of heaven,
Or as the early dew.
6 Then entering the eternal halls
In robes of victory,
That mighty multitude shall keep
The joyous jubilee. Tune Title: LUCIUS
Church of the ever-living God