Thursday, September 14, 2023

Bringing Christ down?

120 Serenity. C. M.

1 We may not climb the heavenly steeps
   To bring the Lord Christ down;
   In vain we search the lowest deeps,
   For Him no depths can drown.

2 But warm, sweet, tender, even yet
   A present help is He;
   And faith has still its Olivet,
   And love its Galilee.

3 The healing of His seamless dress
   Is by our beds of pain;
   We touch Him in life’s throng and press,
   And we are whole again.

4 O Lord and Master of us all:
   Whate’er our name or sign,
   We own Thy sway, we hear Thy call,
   We test our lives by Thine!
                         John G. Whittier
                         The Methodist Hymnal 1939 edition

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