484. O Brother Man, Fold to Your Heart

1 O brother man, fold to your heart your brother;
Where pity dwells, the peace of God is there;
To worship rightly is to love each other,
Each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer.

2 For he whom Jesus loved has truly spoken:
The holier worship which he deigns to bless
Restores the lost, and binds the spirit broken,
And feeds the widow and the fatherless.

3 Follow with reverent steps the great example
Of him whose holy work was doing good;
So shall the wide earth seem our Father's temple,
Each loving life a psalm of gratitude.

4 Then shall all shackles fall; the stormy clangor
Of wild war music o'er the earth shall cease;
Love shall tread out the baleful fire of anger,
And in its ashes plant the tree of peace.

Amen.

Text Information
First Line: O brother man, fold to thy heart your brother
Title: O Brother Man, Fold to Your Heart
Author: John Greenleaf Whittier (1848, alt. 1972)
Meter: 11.10.11.10.
Publication Date: 1972
Scripture:
Topic: Service for the Lord's Day: Conclusion of Worship; Other Observances: Ecumenism; Other Observances: Mission (2 more...)
Tune Information
Name: WELWYN
Composer: Alfred Scott-Gatty (1900)
Meter: 11.10.11.10.
Key: F Major
Notes: As in The English Hymnal, 1906



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