We limit not the truth of God

We limit not the truth of God

To our poor reach of mind

By notions of our day and sect

Crude

partial and confined.

Now let a new and better hope

Within our hearts be stirred:

The Lord hath yet more light and truth

To break forth from His Word.

Who dares to bind by his dull sense

The oracles of heaven

For all the nations

tongues and climes

And all the ages given!

The universe how much unknown!

That ocean unexplored!

The Lord hath yet more light and truth

To break forth from His Word.

Darkling our great forefathers went

The first steps of the way;

’Twas but the dawning yet to grow

Into the perfect day;

And grow it shall

our glorious Sun

More fervid rays afford:

The Lord hath yet more light and truth

To break forth from His Word.

The valleys past

ascending still

Our souls would higher climb

And look down from supernal heights

On all the bygone times;

Upward we press

the air is clear

And the sphere-music heard!

The Lord hath yet more light and truth

To break forth from His Word.

O Father

Son and Spirit

send

Us increase from above;

Enlarge

expand all Christian hearts

To comprehend Thy love;

And make us all go on to know

With nobler powers conferred:

The Lord hath yet more light and truth

To break forth from His Word.