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Hymn: The morning light is breaking (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Psalmist

Date: 1848

Compiler: S W Leonard and A D Fillmore

Publisher/Printer: S W Leonard

First Line: The morning light is breaking

Topic: <no topic given>

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

Composer:

Meter: CM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 244

Page Number: 243, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

The morning light is breaking,

The darkness disappears,

The sons of earth are waking,

To penitential tears;

Each breeze that sweeps the ocean,

Brings tidings from afar,

Of nations in commontion,

Prepared for Zion's war.



Rich dews of grace come o'er us,

In many a gentle shower,

And brighter scenes before us,

Are opening every hour;

Each cry to heaven going,

Abundant answers brings,

And heavenly gales are blowing,

With peace upon their wings.



See heathen nations bending

Before the God we love,

And thousand hearts ascending,

In gratitude above:

While sinners now confessing,

The gospel call obey,

And seek the Saviour's blessing,

A nation in a day.



Blest river of salvation,

Pursue thy onward way,

Flow thou to every nation,

Nor in thy richness stay;

Stay not, till all the lowly

Triumphant reach their home,

Stay not, till all the holy

Proclaim the Lord has come.