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Text:The morning light
Author:Samuel F. Smith
Tune:ORIENS
Composer:W. F. Sherwin

525. The morning light

1 The morning light is breaking;
The darkness disappears!
The sons of earth are waking
To penitential tears;
Each breeze that sweeps the ocean
Brings tidings from afar,
Of nations in commotion,
Prepared for Zion's war.

2 See heathen nations bending
Before the God we love,
And thousand hearts ascending
In gratitude above;
While sinners, now confessing,
The gospel call obey,
And seek the Saviour's blessing
A nation in a day.

3 Blest river of salvation!
Pursue thine onward way;
Flow thou to every nation,
Nor in thy richness stay:
Stay not till all the lowly
Triumphant reach their home:
Stay not till all the holy
Proclaim "The Lord is come!"

Text Information
First Line: The morning light is breaking
Title: The morning light
Author: Samuel F. Smith
Language: English
Publication Date: 1890
Topic: Missions and Growth; Church: Missions of; Church: Triumph of (1 more...)
Tune Information
Name: ORIENS
Composer: W. F. Sherwin
Meter: 7s, 6s, D
Key: G Major or modal



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