[Original Hymn, in] Free Agency and Moral Inability Reconciled a sermon preached at the installation of Rev. Charles Lowe, as Pastor of the North Church in Salem, Massachusetts, September 27, 1855 |
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VI. Original Hymn.—By Rev. Charles T. Brooks.
1.
Great God! within these temple gatesTo-day a reverent people waits
To hear Thy voice, to see Thy face,
And feel Thine all-enlivening grace.
2.
For here, of old, Thy name was named,Thy truth, of old, was here proclaimed,
Here swelled the song of praise and trust
From lips now mouldering in the dust.
3.
What sainted forms, this hour draw near,To calm, to strengthen and to cheer!
Their words of counsel and of prayer
Still haunt the hushed and hallowed air.
4.
Where once they stood, Thy servant standsWith girded loins and waiting hands;
O, give him strength, Almighty Lord!
To do Thy will and speak Thy word.
5.
Give him the burning love of truthAnd wisdom's ever-blooming youth;
The tender heart, the faithful tongue,
The quickening word for old and young.
6.
Lord! on this ancient church of ThineStill let Thy face benignant shine,
And more and more, as years roll by,
May souls be ripening for the sky!
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