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Christ Is Coming
CHRIST IS COMING-George Coles Stebbins
NEANDER-Joachim Neander
Christ Is Coming
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Christ is coming! let creation
From her groans and travail cease;
Let the glorious proclamation
Hope restore and faith increase:
Chorus Christ is coming! Christ is coming!
Come, Thou blessed Prince of peace!
Christ is coming! Christ is coming!
Come, Thou blessed Prince of peace!
Earth can now but tell the story
Of Thy bitter cross and pain;
She shall yet behold Thy glory,
When Thou comest back to reign.
Though once cradled in a manger,
Oft no pillow but the sod;
Here an alien and a stranger,
Mock'd of men, disown'd of God.
Long Thy exiles have been pining,
Far from rest, and home, and Thee;
But, in heavenly vesture shining,
Soon they shall Thy glory see.
With that "blessed hope" before us,
Let no harp remain unstrung;
Let the mighty ransom'd chorus
Onward roll from tongue to tongue.