Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: Kindred in Christ for his dear sake
Topic: The Church/Love Unity and Fellowship
Writer: <no first name given> Newton
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 477
Page Number: 292, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsKindred in Christ, for his dear sake
A hearty welcome here receive;
May we together now partake
The joys which only he can give.
May he, by whose kind care we meet,
Send his good Spirit from above;
Make our communications sweet,
And cause our hearts to burn with love.
Forgotten be each worldly theme,
When Christians meet together thus;
We only wish to speak of him
Who lived, and died, and reigns for us.
We'll talk of all he did, and said,
And suffered for us here below;
The path he marked for us to tread,
And what he's doing for us now.
Thus--as the moments pass away--
We'll love, and wonder, and adore;
And hasten on the glorious day
When we shall meet to part no more.