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Hymn: Our souls by love together knit (FL)

Hymnal: Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs

Date: 1853

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: A Campbell

First Line: Our souls by love together knit

Topic: Christian Union and Communion

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer:

Meter: PM

Tune:

Hymn Number: Song 140

Page Number: 236, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

OUR souls by love together knit,

Cemented, join'd in one;

One hope, one heart, one mind, one voice--

'Tis heav'n on earth begun.

Our hearts have burn'd while Jesus spoke,

And glow'd with sacred fire;

He stoop'd and talk'd, and fed, and bless'd,

And fill'd th' enlarg'd desire.



CHORUS.

A Saviour, let creation sing!

A Saviour, let all heaven ring!

He's God with us, we feel him ours;

His fulness in our souls he pours!

'Tis almost done,

'Tis almost o'er;

We're joining them who've gone before;

We soon shall meet to part no more.



We're soldiers fighting for our God,

Let trembling cowards fly;

We'll stand unshaken, firm, and fix'd,

With Christ to live and die.

Let Satan rage, and hell assail,

We'll fight our passage through;

Though foes unite, and friends desert,

We'll seize the prize in view.



The little cloud increases still,

The heav'ns are big with rain;

We haste to catch the teeming show'r,

And all its moisture drain;

A rill, a stream, a torrent flows,

Now pours the mighty flood--

O sweep the nations, shake the earth,

Till all proclaim thee Lord!



And when thou mak'st thy jewels up,

And sett'st thy starry crown,

And all thy sparkling gems shall shine,

Proclaim'd by thee thine own;

May we, the little band of love,

We, sinners sav'd by grace,

From glory into glory chang'd,

Behold thy lovely face.