581 When the Church of Jesus
[1]
When the church of Jesus
Shuts its outer door
Lest the roar of traffic
Drown the voice of prayer:
May our prayers Lord make us
Ten times more aware
That the world banish
Is our Christian care.
When the church of Jesus
Shuts its outer door
Lest the roar of traffic
Drown the voice of prayer:
May our prayers Lord make us
Ten times more aware
That the world banish
Is our Christian care.
[2]
If our hearts are lifted
Where devotion soars
High above this hungry
Suffering world of ours;
Lest our hymns should drug us
To forget its needs
Forge our Christian worship
Into Christian deeds.
If our hearts are lifted
Where devotion soars
High above this hungry
Suffering world of ours;
Lest our hymns should drug us
To forget its needs
Forge our Christian worship
Into Christian deeds.
[3]
Lest the gifts we offer
Money talents time
Serve to salve our conscience
To our secret shame;
Lord reprove inspire us
By the way you give;
Teach us dying Savior
How true Christians live.
Lest the gifts we offer
Money talents time
Serve to salve our conscience
To our secret shame;
Lord reprove inspire us
By the way you give;
Teach us dying Savior
How true Christians live.