80 O World of God
[1]
O world of God so vast and strange
Profound and wonderful and fair
Beyond the utmost reach of thought
But not beyond a Father s care!
We are not strangers on this earth
Whirling amid the suns of space;
We are God s children this our home
With those of every clime and race.
O world of God so vast and strange
Profound and wonderful and fair
Beyond the utmost reach of thought
But not beyond a Father s care!
We are not strangers on this earth
Whirling amid the suns of space;
We are God s children this our home
With those of every clime and race.
[2]
O world of man where life is lived
So strangely mingling joy and pain
So full of evil and of good
So needful that the good shall reign!
It is this world that God has loved
And goodness was its Maker s plan
The promise of God s triumph is
His coming in a Son of Man.
O world of man where life is lived
So strangely mingling joy and pain
So full of evil and of good
So needful that the good shall reign!
It is this world that God has loved
And goodness was its Maker s plan
The promise of God s triumph is
His coming in a Son of Man.
[3]
O world of time s far-stretching years!
There was a day when time stood still
A central moment when there rose
A cross upon a cruel hill;
In pain and death love s power was seen
The mystery of time revealed
The wisdom of the ways of God
The grace through which man s hurt is healed.
O world of time s far-stretching years!
There was a day when time stood still
A central moment when there rose
A cross upon a cruel hill;
In pain and death love s power was seen
The mystery of time revealed
The wisdom of the ways of God
The grace through which man s hurt is healed.