Son of God, eternal Savior,
Source
of life and truth and grace,
Word
made flesh, whose birth among us
Hallows
our human race,
Your
our head, who throned in glory,
For
Your own will ever plead:
Fill
us with Your love and pity,
Heal
our wrongs, and help our need.
2
Bind
us all as one together
In
Your church’s sacred fold,
Weak
and healthy, poor and wealthy,
Sad
and joyful, young and old.
Is
there want or pain or sorrow?
Make
us all the burden share.
Are
there spirit crushed and broken?
Teach
us, Lord to sooth their care.
3
As
You, Lord have lived for others,
So
may we for others live.
Freely
have Your gifts been granted;
Freely
may Your servants give.
Yours
the gold and Yours the silver,
Yours
the wealth of land and sea;
We
but stewards of Your bounty
Held
in solemn trust will be.
4
Come,
O Christ, and reign among us,
King
of love and Prince of Peace;
Hush
the storm of strife and passion,
Bid
its cruel discord cease.
By
Your patient years of toiling,
By
Your silent hours of pain,
Quench
our fevered thirst of pleasure,
Stem
our selfish greed of gain.
5
Son
of God, eternal Savior,
Source
of life and truth and grace,
Word
made flesh, whose birth among us
Hallows
all our human race:
By
Your praying, by Your willing
That
Your people should be one,
Grant,
oh, grant our hope’s fruition:
Here
on earth Your will be done.