537 The Church’s Mission

 

1. Christ for the world we sing!

The world to Christ we bring

with loving zeal;

the poor, and them that mourn,

the faint and overborne,

sin-sick and sorrow worn,

whom Christ doth heal.

 

2. Christ for the world we sing!

The world to Christ we bring

with fervent prayer;

the way-ward and the lost,

by restless passions tossed,

redeemed at countless cost

from dark despair.

 

3. Christ for the world we sing!

The world to Christ we bring

with one accord;

with us the work to share,

with us the cross to bear,

for Christ our Lord.

 

4. Christ for the world we sing!

The world to Christ we bring

with joyful song;

the new-born souls, whose days,

reclaimed from error’s ways,

inspired with hope and praise,

to Christ belong.

 

Words: Samuel Wolcott (1813-1886) Music: Moscow, melody Felice de Giardini (1716-1796); harm. The New Hymnal, 1916, based on Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1875, and Lowell Mason (1792-1872)