GRH 575 The Morning Light Is Breaking

(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 a far,
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 thine onward way;
Flow thou to ev’ry 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!’