637   Son of God Eternal Savior




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Son of God eternal Savior
Source of life and truth and grace
Word made flesh whose birth among us
Hallows all our human race
You our head who throned in glory
For Your own will ever plead:
Fill us with Your love and pity
Heal our wrongs and help our need.

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Bind us all as one together
In Your church s sacred fold
Weak and healthy poor and wealthy
Sad and joyful young and old.
Is there want or pain or sorrow?
Make us all the burden share.
Are there spirits crushed and broken?
Teach us Lord to soothe their care.

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As You Lord have lived for others
So may we for others live.
Freely have Your gifts been granted;
Freely may Your servants give.
Yours the gold and Yours the silver
Yours the wealth of land and sea;
We but stewards of Your bounty
Held in solemn trust will be.

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Come O Christ and reign among us
King of love and Prince of Peace
Hush the storm of strife and passion
Bid its cruel discords cease
By Your patient years of toiling
By Your silent hours of pain
Quench our fevered thirst of pleasure
Stem our selfish greed of gain.

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Son of God eternal Savior
Source of life and truth and grace
Word made flesh whose birth among us
Hallows all our human race:
By Your praying by Your willing
That Your people should be one
Grant oh grant our hope s fruition:
Here on earth Your will be done.