144. The Church's One Foundation

1. The Church's one foundation
Is Jesus Christ her Lord;
She is His new creation
By water and the word:
From Heav'n He came and sought her
To be His holy bride;
With His own blood He bought her,
And for her life He died.

2. Elect from ev'ry nation,
Yet one o'er all the earth,
Her charter of salvation,
One Lord, one faith, one birth;
One holy name she blesses,
Partakes one holy food,
And to one hope she presses,
With ev'ry grace endued.

3. Tho' with a scornful wonder,
Men see her sore oppressed,
By schisms rent asunder,
By heresies distressed,
Yet saints their watch are keeping,
Their cry goes up, "How long?"
And soon the night of weeping
Shall be the morn of song.

4. 'Mid toil and tribulation,
And tumult of her war,
She waits the consumation
Of peace forevermore;
Till, with the vision glorious,
Her longing eyes are blest,
And the great church victorious
Shall be the church at rest.
Amen.

Text Information
First Line: The Church's one foundation
Title: The Church's One Foundation
Author: Rev. Samuel J. Stone (1866)
Meter: 7 6 7 6 D
Language: English
Publication Date: 1929
Topic: The Church
Tune Information
Name: AURELIA
Composer: Samuel S. Wesley (1864)
Meter: 7 6 7 6 D
Incipit: 33343 32116 54345
Key: E♭ Major



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