He prays for Christ to “heal these hearts of pain” and to “tread the city’s streets again” so that all might know Christ’s love.Īnd finally he holds out the vision of “heaven above,” and reminds us that heaven is known as “the city of our God. He wrote, “The cup of water given for you still holds the freshness of your grace”-and we envision the homeless beggar asking for something to eat or drink. He wrote about hearing Christ’s voice “above the noise of selfish strife”-and teaches us to listen for Christ amidst honking horns and loud voices. He wrote “Where cross the crowded ways of life”-and we envision crowds of people at an intersection-waiting for the opportunity to cross. North hadn’t experienced those places, so he wrote about what he had experienced-our teeming cities. That request wasn’t completely random, because North was an officer of two city missions-the New York City Mission and the National City Mission-but in those days, people thought of missions as having to do with Africa or Asia or other faraway places.
Hymnal and Liturgies of the Moravian Church (Unitas Fratrum) (1923) (69).Hymnal and Liturgies of the Moravian Church (1969) (27).The Hymnal and Order of Service (1925) (33).Evangelical Lutheran Worship (2006) (19).Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary (1996) (13).Common Service Book of the Lutheran Church (1917) (56).Church Militant/Kingdom of God 2000s (26).Church Militant/Kingdom of God 1900s (141).Church Militant/Kingdom of God 1800s (160).Church Militant/Kingdom of God 1700s (50).Church Militant/Kingdom of God 1600s (10).Hymnbook for Christian Worship (1970) (13).and Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) (81)
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Pingback: Week of Proper 5: Tuesday, Year 2 « ORDINARY TIME DEVOTIONS BY KENNETH RANDOLPH TAYLOR Hymn Source = The Methodist Hymnal (1905), of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church, South the hymn appeared first in this book Words by the Reverend Frank Mason North (1850-1935), a minister of the late Methodist Episcopal Church, a forerunner of The United Methodist Church (1968-) North, concerned with social justice, was active in the movement to end child labor and served as President of the Federal Council of Churches, a forerunner of the National Council of Churches, from 1916 to 1920
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