From east to west, from north to south,
The Saviour's kingdom shall extend,
And everywhere, in every place,
That kingdom flourish without end.
REJOICE, the Lord is King;
Your God and King adore;
His glorious triumph sing,
And praise Him evermore.
Lift up your heart, lift up your voice,
Rejoice, the Lord is king, rejoice.
Jesus, the Saviour, reigns,
The God of truth and love,
When he had washed our stains,
He took his seat above.
Lift up your heart, lift up your voice,
Rejoice, the Lord is King, rejoice.
Rejoice, the Lord will come,
Triumphant from the skies ;
And glorious from the tomb
Shall all his saints arise.
Lift up your heart, lift up your voice,
Rejoice, the Lord is King, rejoice,
Loo he with schners slain,
O! he comes, with clouds descending,
Thousand, thousand saints attending,
Swell the triumph of his train: Hal.!
Jesus comes, and comes to reign.
Every eye shall then behold Him,
Robed in dreadful majesty :
Those who set at nought and sold Him,
Pierced and nailed Him to the tree,
Shall the true Messiah see.
Then redemption, long expected,
Shall in solemn pomp appear!
And his saints, by man rejected,
Rise to meet Him in the air! Hal.!
See the day of God appear.
Yea! Amen! Let all adore Thee
High on thine eternal throne !
Saviour, take the power and glory,
Claim the kingdom for thine own!
Oh, come quickly!
Hallelujah! come, Lord, come!
HOU alone, Almighty Spirit,
Canst a guilty world reclaim;
Man may preach; without thy blessing,
Sinners will be still the same.
Mighty Spirit!
Witness to the Saviour's name.
How many vainly strive and toil,
Peace and pardon to obtain !
Show them how the blood of Jesus
Cleanseth them from every stain:
Gracious Spirit!
May they peace and pardon gain.
Thou hast promised, by the prophets,
Glorious light in latter days;
Come and bless bewildered nations,
Change our prayers and tears to praise ;
Promised Spirit!
O'er the world diffuse thy rays.
AVE we received the joyful sound?
And shall we not to all proclaim
His wondrous grace, his mighty name?
Does God to us his glory show?
Do we his boundless mercy know?
And shall not love constrain our heart,
This blessed knowledge to impart ?
O Saviour! who for all hast died,
Be Thou our teacher-Thou our guide:
Inflame our hearts with christian love,
O send thy Spirit from above.
Send forth thy light, display thy power;
Let all confess, let all adore;
In every land thy word be sown;
By every one thy truth be known.
HALL hymns of grateful love Through heaven's high arches ring, And all the hosts above
Their songs of triumph sing?
And shall not we take up the strain,
And send the echo back again?
Shall every ransomed tribe
Of Adam's scattered race
To Christ all power ascribe,
Who saved them by his grace? And, &c.
Shall they adore the Lord
Who bought them with his blood,
And all the love record
That led them home to God? And, &c.
O spread the joyful sound,
The Saviour's love proclaim,
And publish all around
Salvation, through his name,
Till the whole world take up the strain,
And send the echo back again.
ROM Greenland's icy mountains,
FROM India's coral strand;
Where Afric's sunny fountains
Roll down their golden sand.
From many an ancient river,
From many a palmy plain,
They call us to deliver
Their land from error's chain.
What though the spicy breezes
Blow soft on Ceylon's isle ;
Though every prospect pleases,
And only man is vile;
In vain with lavish kindness,
The gifts of God are strown;
The heathen in his blindness,
Bows down to wood and stone.
Shall we, whose souls are lighted
With wisdom from on high,-
Shall we to men benighted
The lamp of life deny ?
Salvation! oh, salvation!
The joyful sound proclaim,
Till each remotest nation
Has learnt Messiah's name.
Waft, waft, ye winds, his story;
And you ye waters roll,
Till, like a sea of glory,
It spreads from pole to pole
Till o'er our ransomed nature,
The Lamb for sinners slain,
Redeemer, King, Creator,
In bliss returns to reign.
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