100 (Index of Tunes, LXXXII.)
100.
Tune.--"Lord Jesus Christ, my Life, my Light."
O Jesu Christe, wahres Licht
J. Heermann, 1630
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. | 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. | And all who else have stray'd from Thee, Oh gently seek! Thy healing be To every wounded conscience given, And let them also share Thy heaven. | Oh make the deaf to bear Thy word, And teach the dumb to speak, dear Lord, Who dare not yet the faith avow, Though secretly they hold it now. | Shine on the darken'd and the cold, Recall the wand'rers from Thy fold, Unite those now who walk apart, Confirm the weak and doubting heart. | 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. | |