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Hymn: Go messenger of peace and love (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: Go messenger of peace and love

Topic: The Church/Officers

Writer: <no first name given> Balfour

Composer:

Meter: LM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 466

Page Number: 285, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Go--messenger of peace and love!

To nations plunged in shades of night;

Like angels sent from fields above,

Be thine to shed celestial light.



Go--to the hungry food impart;

To paths of peace the wanderer guide,

And lead the thirsty, panting heart,

Where streams of living water glide.



Go--bid the bright and morning-star

From Bethlehem's plains resplendent shine,

And, piercing through the gloom afar,

Shed heavenly light and love divine.



From north to south, from east to west,

Messiah yet shall reign supreme;

His name by every tongue confess'd--

His praise--the universal theme.