Enter ye love’s kingdom

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1 Enter ye Love’s Kingdom,
All God’s own possession,
Who in Christ have found salvation.
Learn from your Redeemer,
Each to love his brother
And in love to serve each other!
Heed with care; gladly bear
All who seek His favor,
Though they faint and waver.

2 Yield in true submission
And in love be fervent,
Each to be the other’s servant;
Love is void of envy,
Full of kind forbearance
And unlimited endurance,
Love increase! Never cease
Love’s sweet flame to cherish,
Lest it wane and perish!

3 If the Saviour’s Kingdom
Is to grow and flourish
With God’s richest blessings nourished,
May our love be burning,
And God’s love returning;
Jesus, bless our ardent yearning!
Though our foes should oppose,
If we stand united,
They shall be requited.

4 Abba, loving Father,
Son and Holy Spirit,
Heal each fault and each demerit.
False conceit and anger,
Self-esteem and malice
Mortify through Thy pure motives!
We deride Satan’s might,
As ’round Thee we gather
Calling Thee our Father.

Source: Zion's Harp: a collection of hymns and songs for the Apostolic Christian Church of America #69

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Author: Ernst Gottlieb Woltersdorf

Woltersdorf: Ernst Gottlieb W., as a hymn writer, preacher, prolific writer and educators in the field of Erbauungslitteratur one of the most outstanding representatives of pietistic healthy heart and mind towards the middle of the 18th Century. He was born on 31 May 1725 as the sixth son of the preacher to Gabriel Luke Friedrichsfelde in Berlin, who was appointed 10 years after its birth as a preacher at the St. George Church in Berlin. The blessing of a serious Christian education accompanied him to the Berlin High School to the gray convent, from which he received in 1742, only 17 years old, the University of Halle, to be under the direction of the pietistic school teachers belonging to J. Lange, Michael, Baumgarten and Knapp to pay the… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Enter ye love’s kingdom
Original Language:	German
Author:	Ernst Gottlieb Woltersdorf
Language:	English
Publication Date:	2003
Copyright:	This text may still be under copyright because it was published in 2003.