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Text:God made all his creatures free
Author:Montgomery

797. God made all his creatures free

1 God made all his creatures free;
Life itself is liberty;
God ordained no other bands
Than united hearts and hands.

2 Sin the primal charter broke:--
Sin, itself earth's heaviest yoke;
Tyranny with sin began,
Man o'er brute, and man o'er man.

3 But a better day shall be;
Life again be liberty;
And the wide world's only bands
Love-knit hearts and love-linked hands.

4 So shall every slavery cease,
All God's children dwell in peace,
And the new-born earth record
Love, and Love alone, is Lord.

Text Information
First Line: God made all his creatures free
Author: Montgomery
Meter: 7s
Publication Date: 1873
Topic: The Christian Nation: Freedom; Human Birthright
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