What Time the Evening Shadows Fall (EN 4481)

EN 4481 What Time the Evening Shadows Fall

John.17.21

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What time the evening shadows fall

Around the Church on earth,

When darker forms of doubt appall,

And new false lights have birth;

Then closer should her faithful band

For truth together hold,

Hell’s last devices to withstand,

And safely guard her fold.

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O Father, in that hour of fear,

Thy Church on earth do keep,

Thine altar to the last to rear,

And feed Thy fainting sheep;

May she the holy truths attest

Apostles taught of yore,

Nor quit the faith by saints confessed,

Though tempted ne’er so sore.

3

O Christ, who for Thy flock didst pray

That all might be as one,

Unite us all ere fades the day,

Thou sole begotten Son;

The East, the West, together bind

In love’s unbroken chain;

Give each one hope, one heart, one mind,

One glory, and one gain.

4

O Spirit, Lord of light and life,

The Church with strength renew,

Compose the angry voice of strife,

All jealousies subdue;

Do Thou in ever quickening streams

Upon Thy saints descend,

And warm them with reviving beams,

And guide them to the end.

5

Great Three in One, great One in Three,

Our hymns of prayer receive,

And teach us all from sin to flee,

And live as we believe;

So, pure in faith, our thoughts and speech,

And acts that faith shall own;

So shall we to Thy presence reach,

And know as we are known.

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