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Send forth thy light, O Zion

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1 Send forth your light, O Zion!
Out from your tow'rs shall go
the radiant beams a people
in tune with God can know.
Upborne by higher concepts
of God's eternal call,
let shine afar the guide-lights,
revealing God to all.

2 Send forth your love, O Zion!
Your call is from above,
to make on earth incarnate
Christ's sacrificial love.
For by the saints outreaching
to those their lives can bless
shall come Zionic witness
to heal earth's brokenness.

3 Send forth your life, O Zion!
Not for yourself alone
have come life-giving powers
by which the soul has grown.
Your promise builds a people
well-skilled in mind and hand.
Your life is like a leaven
of hope in every land.

Source: Community of Christ Sings #622

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Author: Roy A. Cheville

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Text Information

First Line: Send forth thy light, O Zion
Author: Roy A. Cheville
Language: Spanish
Notes: Spanish translation: See "Difunda, oh Sion, las nuevas" by Vernon L. Peterson
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Tune

LANCASHIRE (Smart)

Henry T. Smart (PHH 233) composed the tune in 1835 for use at a missions festival at Blackburn, Lancashire, England. For that festival, which celebrated the three-hundredth anniversary of the Reformation in England, the tune was set to Reginald Heber's (PHH 249) “From Greenland's Icy Mountains.”…

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Community of Christ Sings #622

Community of Christ Sings #622

Hymns of the Saints #317

Hymns of the Saints #317
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