True Witness of the Father’s Love

True wit­ness of the Fa­ther’s love

Celestial mes­sen­ger di­vine

Come in Thy Spir­it from ab­ove

The hearts which Thou hast made in­cline

Thy faith­ful re­cord to re­ceive

That all may hear Thy voice and live.

Send forth the ev­er­last­ing Word

The Word of re­con­cil­ing grace

That all may know their bleed­ing Lord

The free­ly prof­fered gift em­brace

Hang on the all-aton­ing Lamb

And bless the sound of Je­sus’ name.

Jesu

Thou on­ly hast the key

Open the great ef­fec­tu­al door

Extend Thy line from sea to sea

And glo­ri­fy Thy mer­cy’s pow­er

Redeem the wretch­ed slaves of sin

And force Thy re­bels to come in.

Now to Thy yoke their spir­its bow

Thy way in­to their hearts pre­pare

Be pre­sent with Thy serv­ants now

With me Thy mean­est mes­sen­ger

Who hum­bly at Thy bid­ding come

To call my fel­low ex­iles home.

Fisher of men or­dained by Thee

O might I catch them by Thy love!

Thy love be first be­stowed on me

And while the pleas­ing pow­er I prove

My tongue shall ec­ho to my heart

And tell the world how good Thou art.

Teach me to cast my net aright

The Gos­pel net of ge­ne­ral grace

So shall I all to Thee in­vite

And draw them to their Lord’s em­brace

Within Thine arms of love in­clude

And catch a will­ing mul­ti­tude.

O might I ev­ery mourn­er cheer

And trou­ble ev­ery heart of stone

Save

un­der Thee

the souls that hear

Nor lose

in seek­ing them

my own

Nor base­ly from my call­ing fly

But for Thy Gos­pel live

and die.