Not Individual Souls Alone

Not in­di­vid­ual souls alone

Require the new and heav­en­ly birth

Society in sin up-grown

Needs Chris­tian­iz­ing o’er the earth.

True right­eous­ness must be the same

For man com­bined or iso­late;

The happiness of all its aim

In fa­mi­ly

or teem­ing state.

The prin­ci­ples by Je­sus taught

Must be imp­ar­tial­ly ap­plied.

And so­cial in­sti­tu­tions brought

With laws divine to co­in­cide.

’Tis ours to speed this glo­ri­ous change

This re­no­va­tion to pre­pare

Its in­tro­duc­tion to ar­range

And in its future tri­umphs share.

Thus Heav’n and earth shall be re­newed

By God’s re­gen­er­at­ing word

Our way­ward race to Christ sub­dued

And Ed­en’s har­mo­ny re­stored.