New HYMN for SONGS OF PRAISE Celebrations

Yes, for many, 'Songs of Praise' has provided a glimmer of spiritual cheer for fifty years.

However, no period has known a greater degree of religious decline and Christian apostasy.

No section of the professing Christian Church stands untarnished.

Ecumenism has led to an increase of papal-inspired authoritarianism and ritualism. Rome's priesthood is corrupted with paedophilia.

The Anglican Church has disintegrated through Liberalism, poisoned by feminism and homosexuality.

'Happy clappy' and 'charismanic' Evangelicalism has produced a superficial and trivial spirituality, perverted by fleshly worship styles and sentimental music.

Reformed Calvinists have produced much dead orthodoxy, hypercalvinism and antinomianism.

IT IS TIME FOR REPENTANCE!   TIME TO PRAY FOR REFORMATION AND REVIVAL!

The following 'Hymn for Revival' is a humble contribution to this end [see attachment for tune]:

HYMN FOR REVIVAL

(Psalm 85; Habakkuk. 3: 2)

Tune:

Llanllyfni DSM

(John Jones Talsarn, 1796-1857)

　
O GOD, exalt your name,
Revive your prostrate cause;
The honours of your Son proclaim
And vindicate His laws;
Our lethargy we mourn,
The unresponsive heart,
We long to taste the liberty
Your Spirit can impart. 　                                  2 Reveal the sight of Him
                                    For whom we feebly strive;
                                    Our vision of your truth is dim,
                                    We scarcely seem alive;
                                    Our sins His heart have pained,
                                    Our shame we cannot hide,
                                    Are we the church, by blood redeemed,
                                    For whom the Saviour died? 　                                                                      

                            3      Lord, come with sovereign power,
                                    Purge our hypocrisy,
                                    Come in this late, this needy hour
                                    And grant us sanctity;
                                    Oh banish from our minds
                                    Sin’s least suggestive thought,
                                    Fulfil the purpose of your wounds,
                                    Implant what you have wrought. 　                                      

                                 4 Inspire our hearts to feel
                                    The truth we have declared;
                                    O God, the world has quenched our zeal,
                                    By fear we are ensnared;
                                    Free us from bondage, Lord,
                                    Revive your work once more,
                                    Then all the earth shall hear your word,
                                    All shall your grace adore!

　

Dr Alan C. Clifford

　(Used with the author's express and gracious permission)