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SDAH 581: When the Church of Jesus

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SDAH 581

When the church of Jesus shuts its outer door,
Lest the roar of traffic drown the voice of prayer:
May our prayers, Lord make up ten times more aware
That the world we banish is our Christian care.

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When the church of Jesus shuts its outer door,
Lest the roar of traffic drown the voice of prayer:
May our prayers, Lord make up ten times more aware
That the world we banish is our Christian care.

2
If our hearts are lifted where devotion soars
High above this hungry suffering world of ours:
Lest our hymns should drug us to forget its needs,
Forge our Christian worship into Christian deeds.

3
Lest the gifts we offer, money, talents, time,
Serve to salve our conscience to our secret shame:
Lord, reprove, inspire us by the way you give;
Teach us, dying Savior, how true Christians live.

Hymn Info
Hymn Info


Biblical Reference
(b) Jas 2:17

Author
Fred Pratt Green (1903-2000)

Copyright
Words copyright 1969 by Hope Publishing Co., Carol STream, IL 60188. All rights reserved. Used by permission. Music from Enlarged Songs of Praise by permission of Oxford University Press.

Hymn Tune
KING’S WESTON

Metrical Number
6.5.6.5.D.

Composer
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

Unison Setting
SDAH 232

Hymn Score

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