Not individual souls alone

1 Not in­di­vid­ual souls alone
Require the new and heav­en­ly birth,
Society in sin up-grown,
Needs Chris­tian­iz­ing o’er the earth.

2 True right­eous­ness must be the same,
For man com­bined or iso­late;
The happiness of all its aim,
In fa­mi­ly, or teem­ing state.

3 The prin­ci­ples by Je­sus taught
Must be imp­ar­tial­ly ap­plied.
And so­cial in­sti­tu­tions brought,
With laws divine to co­in­cide.

4 ’Tis ours to speed this glo­ri­ous change,
This re­no­va­tion to pre­pare,
Its in­tro­duc­tion to ar­range,
And in its future tri­umphs share.

5 Thus Heav’n and earth shall be re­newed,
By God’s re­gen­er­at­ing word,
Our way­ward race to Christ sub­dued,
And Ed­en’s har­mo­ny re­stored.


Source: The Cyber Hymnal #16791

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