593 | Voices United#594 | 595 |
Text: | O Christian, Love |
Author: | John Greenleaf Whittier |
Tune: | WELWYN |
Composer: | Alfred Scott-Gatty |
1 O Christian, love your sister and your brother!
Where pity dwells, the peace of God is there;
to worship rightly is to love each other,
each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer.
2 Follow with reverent steps the great example:
Jesus whose holy work was doing good;
so shall the wide earth seem a hallowed temple,
each loving life a psalm of gratitude.
4 Then shall all shackles fall; the stormy clangour
of wild war-music o'er the earth shall cease;
love shall tread out the baleful fire of anger,
and in its ashes plant the tree of peace.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | O Christian, love your sister and your brother! |
Title: | O Christian, Love |
Author: | John Greenleaf Whittier (1848, alt.) |
Meter: | 11 10 11 10. |
Publication Date: | 1996 |
Topic: | Church in the World: Discipleship: Love in Action; Church: Community in Christ; God: Kingdom, Majesty, Realm(9 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | WELWYN |
Composer: | Alfred Scott-Gatty (1902) |
Meter: | 11 10 11 10. |
Key: | F Major |