Splendid church life! His green garden!

Splendid church life! His green garden!

He has brought us

praise the Lord

To experience the Christ Who’s growing here!

He is full of rich enjoyment

To His saints in one accord;

He is new and fresh

available and dear.

I’m so happy in this lovely place

In the garden growing in His grace!

There is no finer pleasure

Than to eat the living tree

And to get the living water into me.

It is not a school or fact’ry

Or a chapel in the air;

But a garden where our Lord can plant and sow.

So He’s placed us all here corporately

To be His garden fair

Where He’s free to cultivate and make us grow.

Thus within the church-life garden

There’s a fruit-producing tree

Full of life and so available to eat.

So be simple

don’t be hardened

Drop your concepts—eat that tree!

Take in Jesus every moment—He’s so sweet!

With the tree there is the water

Flowing God in Christ to us

Quenching all our dryness

ending all our strife.

Hallelujah! In His garden

Jesus flows Himself to us

As the full supply for us to grow in life.

Aren’t you satisfied and thankful

That our Lord has brought you in

Where His pleasures and His riches flow so free?

So be happy and be joyful

In the spirit feast on Him

So God’s garden can bear fruit abundantly.