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Hymn: O he whom Jesus loved has truly spoken (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: O he whom Jesus loved has truly spoken

Topic: The New Life/Sympathies and Activities

Writer: <no first name given> Whittier

Composer:

Meter: 11s and 10s

Tune:

Hymn Number: 972

Page Number: 577, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

O, he whom Jesus loved has truly spoken!

The holier worship which God deigns to bless,

Restores the lost, and heals the spirit borken,

And feeds the widow and the fatherless.



The, brother man, fold to thy heart thy brother!

For where love dwells, the peace of God is there;

To worship rightly is to love each other;

Each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer.



Follow, with reverent steps, the great example

Of him whose holy work was doing good;

So shall the wide earth seem our Father's temple,

Each loving life a psalm of gratitude.



Thus shall all shackles fall; the stormy clangor

Of wild war-music o'er the earth shall cease;

Love shall tread out the baleful fires of anger,

And in its ashes plant the tree of peace.