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The church has waited long

by Horatius Bonar

Representative text

As printed in The Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal (1985), no. 217.

Verse 1

The church has waited long Her absent Lord to see; And still in loneliness she waits, A friendless stranger she.

Verse 2

How long, O Lord our God, Holy and true and good, Wilt Thou not judge Thy suffering church, Her sighs and tears and blood?

Verse 3

We long to hear Thy voice, To see Thee face to face, To share Thy crown and glory then, As now we share Thy grace.

Verse 4

Come, Lord, and wipe away The curse, the sin, the stain, And make this blighted world of ours Thine own fair world again.

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