Chosen Seed and Zion’s Children

Chosen seed and Zi­on’s child­ren

Ransomed from eter­nal wrath

Traveling to the heav’n­ly Ca­naan

On a rough and thor­ny path;

Church of God

in Christ elect­ed

Thou to God art re­con­ciled

But on earth thou art a strang­er

Persecuted and re­viled.

Still re­joice am­id thy tri­als

Nor re­gard thy lot amiss;

For the kind and lov­ing Sav­ior

Is the source of all thy bliss;

May He ever be thy por­tion

He who gave thee life and breath:

In His keep­ing fear no ev­il

Now or in the hour of death.

Pleasantly thy lines have fall­en

Underneath the tree of life:

For the Lord is thy sal­va­tion

And thy shield in all thy strife:

Here the tim­id bird finds shel­ter

Here the swal­low finds a nest;

Trembling fu­gi­tive a re­fuge

And the wea­ry pil­grim rest.

Faith and love are the con­di­tions;

All on faith and love de­pends;

Love of law is the ful­fill­ment

Faith God’s mer­cy ap­pre­hends;

Who hath faith shall see sal­va­tion

Who hath love shall life ob­tain.

May

O Lord

Thy love pos­sess us

And Thy Spir­it in us reign.

And upon this blest foun­da­tion

Lord

our Lord and Sav­ior King

May Thy Spir­it e’er unite us

To it may we ev­er cling.

May we mem­bers of one bo­dy

Grow in­to a per­fect whole;

Grant

O Lord

that in Thy peo­ple

There may be one heart and soul.