6 No slacker grows the fight, No feebler is the foe, Nor less the need of armor tried, Of shield, and spear, and bow.
7 Thus onward still we press, Through evil and through good-- Through pain, and poverty, and want, Through peril and through blood.
8 Still faithful to our God, And to our Captain true, We follow where he leads the way, The kingdom in our view.
460 8s & 7s. Glorious things are spoken of thee. Psalm 87:3.
Glorious things of thee are spoken, Zion, city of our God! He, whose word can not be broken, Formed thee for his own abode: On the Rock of ages founded, What can shake thy sure repose? With salvation's wall surrounded, Thou mayst smile at all thy foes.
2 See the streams of living waters, Springing from Eternal Love, Well supply thy sons and daughters, And all fear of drought remove: Who can faint while such a river Ever flows their thirst t' assuage! Grace, which like the Lord, the giver, Never fails from age to age.
3 Round each habitation hovering, See the cloud and fire appear, For a glory and a covering, Showing that the Lord is near: Thus deriving from their banner Light by night, and shade by day, Safe they feed upon the manna Which he gives them when they pray.
4 Blest inhabitants of Zion, Washed in the Redeemer's blood, Jesus, whom their souls rely on, Makes them kings and priests to God: 'Tis his love his people raises With himself to reign as kings; And, as priests, his solemn praises Each for a thank-offering brings.
5 Saviour, since of Zion's city, I through grace a member am, Let the world deride or pity, I will glory in thy name: Fading is the worldling's treasure, All his boasted pomp and show! Solid joys and lasting pleasure None but Zion's children know.
461 10s. When the Lord shall bring again Zion. Isaiah 52:8.
Restore, O Father! to our times restore The peace which filled thine infant Church of yore, Ere lust of power had sown the seeds of strife, And quenched the new-born charities of life.
2 O, never more may different judgments part From kindled sympathy a brother's heart! But, linked in one, believing thousands kneel, And share with each the sacred joy they feel.
3 From soul to soul, quick as the sunbeam's ray, Let concord spread one universal day; And faith by love lead all mankind to thee, Parent of peace, and Fount of harmony!