Son of God, eternal Saviour
Son of God, eternal Saviour. Somerset Lowry* (1855-1932).
Written in 1893, and printed in a Christian journal, Goodwill, in 1894, and then in the Christian Social Union Hymn Book (1895). It had six 8-line stanzas. It was included in A&M (1904), with the omission of stanza 5 (which is one of the verses that would have particularly appealed to the Christian Social Union):
Dark the path that lies behind us,
Strewn with wrecks and stained with blood;
But before us gleams the vision
Of the coming brotherhood.
See the Christlike host advancing,
High and lowly, great and small,
Linked in bonds of common service
For the common Lord of all.
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