Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: The Church has waited long
Topic: The Present and the Future/Second Advent
Writer: <no first name given> Bonar
Composer:
Meter: SMD
Tune:
Hymn Number: 1100
Page Number: 651, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsThe Church has waited long
Her absent Lord to see;
And still in loneliness she waits,
A friendless stranger she.
Ago after age has gone,
Sun after sun has set,
And still in weeks of windowhood
She weeps a mourner yet.
Come, then, Lord Jesus, come!
Saint after saint on earth
Has lived, and loved, and died;
And as thy left us one by one,
We laid them side by side;
We laid them down to sleep,
But not in hope forlorn;
We laid them but to ripen there,
Till the last glorious morn.
Come, then, Lord Jesus, come!
The whole creation groans,
And waits to hear that voice
That shall restore her comeliness,
And make her wastes rejoice.
Come, Lord, and wipe away
The curse, the sin, the stain.
And make this blighted world of ours
Thine own fair world again.
Come, then, Lord Jesus, come!