Christ My Song - 201

O Christ, our true and only Light - The Light of the World
(Johann Heermann/Catherine Winkworth/
Johannes Thomas Rüegg)

The Light of the World.

1. O Christ, our true and only Light,
illumine those who sit in night,
  let those afar now hear thy voice,
  and in thy fold with us rejoice. PDF - Midi

2. Fill with the radiance of thy grace
the souls now lost in error's maze,
  and all whom in their secret minds
  some dark delusion hurts and blinds.

3. And all who else have strayed from thee,
oh, gently seek! thy healing be
  to every wounded conscience given,
  and let them also share thy heaven.

4. Oh make the deaf to hear thy word,
and teach the dumb to speak, dear Lord,
  who dare not yet the faith avow,
  though secretly they hold it now.

5. Shine on the darkened and the cold,
recall the wanderers from thy fold,
  unite those now who walk apart,
  confirm the weak and doubting heart.

6. So they with us, may evermore
such grace with wondering thanks adore;
  and endless praise to thee be given,
  by all thy Church in earth and heaven.

Catherine Winkworth, Lyra Germanica, The Christian Life, 1868, 23.
Translated from the German O Jesus Christus, wahres Licht!
of Johann Heermann.

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