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Hymn: O where are kings and empires now (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: O where are kings and empires now

Topic: The Church/Divine Constitution

Writer: A Coxe

Composer:

Meter: CM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 451

Page Number: 275, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

O where are kings and empires now

Of old that went and came?

But Holy Church is praying yet,

A thousand years the same.



Mark ye her holy battlements,

And her foundations strong;

And hear within the solemn voice,

And her unending song.



For not like kingdoms of the world

The Holy Church of God!

Though earthquake shocks are rocking her,

And tempests are abroad;





Unshaken as eternal hills,

Unmovable she stands --

A mountain that shall fill the earth,

A fane unbuilt by hands.