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Samuel Smith, 1874

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AND is the time approaching, A By prophets long foretold, When all shall dwell together, One Shepherd and one fold? Shall every idol perish,

To moles and bats be thrown? And every prayer be offered To God in Christ alone?

2 Shall Jew and Gentile meeting
From many a distant shore,
Around one altar kneeling,
One common Lord adore?
Shall all that now divides us
Remove, and pass away
Like shadows of the morning
Before the blaze of day?

3 Shall all that now unites us More sweet and lasting prove, A closer bond of union

In a blest land of love?
Shall war be learned no longer?

Shall strife and tumult cease?
All earth His blessèd kingdom,
The Lord and Prince of Peace!

4 O long-expected dawning

Come with thy cheering ray;
When shall the morning brighten,
The shadows flee away?
O sweet anticipation!

It cheers the watchers on
To pray and hope and labor,
Till the dark night be gone.

Jane Borthwick, 1859

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1 THE morning light is breaking,

The darkness disappears;

The sons of earth are waking

To penitential tears;

Each breeze that sweeps the ocean

Brings tidings from afar
Of nations in commotion,
Prepared for Zion's war.

2 See heathen nations bending

Before the God we love,
And thousand hearts ascending
In gratitude above;

While sinners, now confessing,

The gospel call obey, And seek the Saviour's blessing, A nation in a day.

3 Blest river of salvation,
Pursue thy onward way;
Flow thou to every nation,
Nor in thy richness stay:
Stay not till all the lowly
Triumphant reach their home;
Stay not till all the holy
Proclaim, "The Lord is come!"

Samuel F. Smith, 1832