GRH 550 Here Is Preached

(1)
Here is preached the gladsome tidings,
Offered here our sacrifice.
Here the Triune God is worshipped,
Praising His redeeming grace,
Glory from the Heaven’s above
Fills the church its worship here;
Glory, full of awe and love,
Crowns the Church its worship there.

(2)
Planted here in God’s own Kingdom
Growing like a tree of life;
Jesus Christ the central body.
We from Him as branches stem.
Day by day, life’s course well run.
Bearing fruit our witness here;
Till at last, our victory won,
We bear fruit our witness there.

(3)
Like the light in a world of darkness
Like the salt in a sordid mind,
Like the heaven in a peck of flour
Silently it changes all.
So the Church its watch doth keep,
Working waiting for the dawn,
Calling out to those who sleep
That they rise to greet the morn.