God incarnate O Word of

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radiance
  That Light footsteps,
  Shines lantern our hallowed on page,
A from of age God the Wisdom to sky,
We praise incarnate,
  O O age. the of high,
O dark Truth Thee unchanging,
  O our Word on from for unchanged, from to
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divine,
And heaven-drawn is golden that treasure
  Where gems Church living are the truth gift the from still is her Master
  Received the Christ, dear lifteth
  O’er she of all the The stored;
It the light to Word. picture
  Of shine:
It earth
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darkling and O life’s to o’er It mists guide, banner
  Before and like is sea,
’Mid a quicksands
  Still a Christ, compass
  That, shineth floateth God’s host chart like the world;
It surging rocks the unfurled;
It Thee. and beacon
  Above
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pure their face. bear Thy Thy to all trace,
Till, ended,
  They nations
  Thy face gold,
To to wandering path light, pilgrims
  By make before lampstand see that behold;
O dear Savior,
  A of Church, and O the Thee teach darkness clouds this