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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Jesus Sun of righteousness (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised

Date: 1882

Compiler: A I Hobbs et al

Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co

First Line: Jesus Sun of righteousness

Topic: Christ/Light

Writer: Jane Borthwick

Composer: Solon Wilder

Meter: 7s and 6s six lines

Tune: Oakland

Hymn Number: 590

Page Number: 214, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

JESUS, Sun of righteousness,

Brightest beam of love divine,

With the early morning rays

Do Thou on our darkness shine,

And dispel, with purest light,

All our night, all our night.



Like the sun's reviving ray,

May Thy love, with tender glow,

All our coldness melt away,

Warm and cheer us forth to go,

Gladly serve Thee and obey

All the day, all the day.



Thou, our only Life and Guide,

Never leave us nor forsake;

In Thy light we may abide

Till th' eternal morning break;

Moving on to Zion's hill.

Homeward still, homeward still.