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On Jordan’s banks the Baptist’s cry

by Charles Coffin (1676–1749)

Representative text

As printed in The Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal (1985), no. 333.

Verse 1

On Jordan’s banks the Baptist’s cry Announces that the Lord is nigh; Awake and hearken, for he brings Glad tidings of the King of kings!

Verse 2

Then cleansed be every life from sin; Make straight the way for God within, And let us all our hearts prepare For Christ to come and enter there.

Verse 3

We hail You as our Savior, Lord, Our refuge and our great reward; Without Your grace we waste away Like flow’rs that wither and decay.

Verse 4

Stretch forth Your hand, our health restore, And make us rise to fall no more; Oh, let Your face upon us shine And fill the world with love divine.

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