Come, kingdom of our God

Come, kingdom of our God

Author: John Johns
Tune: ST. GEORGE (Gauntlett)
Published in 116 hymnals

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Come, kingdom of our God,
Sweet reign of light and love!
Shed peace, and hope, and joy abroad,
And wisdom from above.

Over our spirits first
Extend thy healing reign;
There raise and quench the sacred thirst,
That never pains again.

Come, kingdom of our God!
And make the broad earth thine;
Stretch o’er her lands and isles the rod
That flowers with grace divine.

Soon may all tribes be blest
With fruit from life’s glad tree;
And in its shade like brothers rest,
Sons of one family.



Source: A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion (15th ed.) #584

Author: John Johns

Johns, John, born at Plymouth, March 17, 1801, the son of an artist. Educated at the grammar school and by the Rev. I. Worsley, Unitarian minister at Plymouth, and afterwards spent two years at Edinburgh. In 1820 became minister of the old Presbyterian chapel at Crediton, where he remained till his removal to Liverpool in 1836, as Minister to the Poor. He was a man of fine poetic temperament and retiring disposition, but his work among the people called out his great practical and organising ability. He died a sacrifice to the fever which raged in the district where he laboured, June 23, 1847. Besides his reports to the Liverpool Domestic Mission Society, and frequent contributions to the Monthly Repository, Christian Reformer, and Christia… Go to person page >

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First Line: Come, kingdom of our God
Author: John Johns

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Come, kingdom of our God. J. Johns. [Prayer for the increase of Spiritual Life.] Contributed to Beard's Manchester Unitarian Collection, 1837, No. 203, in 5 stanzas of 4 lines, and headed, "Prayer for the kingdom of God." In 1840 it was repeated in Dr. Martineau's Hymns, &c, and subsequently in numerous Unitarian and other collections in Great Britain and America. It is sometimes used on behalf of Missions. The fifth stanza, which is the finest in the hymn, is usually omitted in the American collections. Original text in Dr. Martineau's Hymns, &c, 1873, and the American Hymns and Songs of Praise, N. Y., 1874, with, in the latter, stanza v., line 2, "raise the," for "raise Thy glorious throne."

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion. (10th ed.) #584Image
A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion (15th ed.) #584Text
A Collection of Psalms and Hymns, for Social and Private Worship (Rev. ed. with supplement) #512Image
A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for the Sanctuary #421Image
A Selection of Spiritual Songs: with music for the Church and the Choir #915Image
American Student Hymnal #d42
Hymnal Amore Dei #258Image
Blessed Hope #d12
Calvary Selection of Spiritual Songs with Music for the Church and the Choir #d149
Cantica Laudis: or, the American Book of Church Music #d53
Carmina Sanctorum: a selection of hymns and songs of praise with tunes #607Image
Carmina Sanctorum, a selection of hymns and songs of praise with tunes #607Image
Chapel Hymns and Services #d11
Christian Praise: a manual of worship for public, social and private devotion #509Image
Church Harmonies: a collection of hymns and tunes for the use of Congregations #384Image
Hymn and Tune Book, for the Church and the Home #453Image
Hymn and Tune Book for the Church and the Home and Services for Congregational Worship. Rev. ed. #d95
Hymn and Tune Book for the Church and the Home. (Rev. ed.) #486Image
Hymn Book for Christian Worship #559Image
Hymnal, Amore Dei #258Image
Hymns and Carols for Church and Sunday-school #4Image
Hymns and Songs of Praise for Public and Social Worship #838Image
Hymns for Children and Young Persons #d81
Hymns for Christian Devotion: especially adapted to the Universalist denomination #303Image
Hymns for Christian Devotion: especially adapted to the Universalist denomination. (New ed.) #303Image
Hymns for Schools and Colleges #45Image
Hymns for Schools: with appropriate selections from scripture and tunes suited to the metres of the hymns (3rd ed.) #255Image
Hymns for the Christian Church, for the Use of the First Church of Christ in Boston #198Image
Hymns for the Church of Christ (3rd thousand) #519Image
Hymns for the Church of Christ. (6th thousand) #519Image
Hymns for the Living Age #d59
Hymns for the Reformed Church in the United States #15Image
Hymns for the Sanctuary #318Image
Hymns for the Sanctuary and Social Worship: with tunes #1038Image
Hymns for the Vestry and the Fireside #d59
Hymns for Worship #d32
Hymns in Harmony with Modern Thought #132Image
Hymns of the Advent #301Image
Hymns of the Christian Life #d58
Hymns of the Christian Life #d59
Hymns of the Kingdom of God #d58
Hymns of the Spirit #688Image
Hymns of the Spirit for Use in the Free Churches of America #d54
Hymns of the United Church #d57
Hymns of the United Church, the Disciples hymnal #d54
Inter-Church Hymnal #d57
Isles of Shoals Hymn Book and Candle Light Service #164Image
Jubilate Deo, a Book of Hymns and Tunes for Young and Old #d39
Junior Church School Hymnal #d20
Laudes Domini: a selection of spiritual songs ancient and modern #501Image
Melodies of Heaven #d25
Missionary Hymns #70Image
Missionary Hymns, with Tunes #d5
National Hymn and Tune Book: for congregations, schools and the home #82Image
Offices of Worship and Hymns: with tunes, 3rd ed., revised and enlarged #1375Image
Prayers and Hymns for the Church and Home #d89
Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs: a manual of worship for the church of Christ #1159Image
Sacred Songs For Public Worship: a hymn and tune book #116Image
Select Songs for the Singing Service in the Prayer Meeting and Sunday School #d35
Select Songs for the Sunday School #d37
Services for Congregational Worship #392Image
Social Hymns and Tunes, for the Conference and Prayer Meeting, and the Home with services and prayers #205Image
Songs for the Sanctuary, or Hymns and Tunes for Christian Worship #1148
Songs for the Sanctuary: or hymns and tunes for Christian Worship #1148Image
Songs for the Sanctuary: or hymns and tunes for Christian worship #1148Image
Songs for the Sanctuary: or hymns and tunes for Christian Worship #1148Image
Songs for the Sanctuary; or Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship (Baptist Ed.) #1148Image
Songs for the Sanctuary; or, Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship (Words only) #1148Image
Songs of Christian Praise with Music #d88
Songs of the Christian Life #430Image
Standard Church Hymns and Gospel Songs #d43
Sunday School Songs. 3rd ed. #d19
Sunday-School Songs: a new collection of hymns and tunes specially prepared for the use of Sunday-schools and for social and family worship. (3rd. ed.) #131aImage
The American Hymnal #d83
The American Hymnal for Chapel Service #d54
The American Hymnal for Chapel Service #d56
The Baptist Hymn and Praise Book #d75
The Baptist Praise Book #1230Image
The Beacon Hymnal #d34
The Book of Praise: or, Hymns for Public and Social Worship #d112
The Calvary Selection of Spiritual Songs: with music for use in social meetings. #465Image
The Canadian Baptist Hymn Book #618Image
The Christian Hymnal: a selection of psalms and hymns with music, for use in public worship #365Image
The Church-Book #d65
The Church Hymnary: a collection of hymns and tunes for public worship #799Image
The Church of God Selection of Spiritual Songs for the Church and Choir #d147
The Churches of God Hymnal. #d82
The College Hymnal: for divine service at Yale College in the Battell Chapel #234Image
The Gospel Hymnal #d95
The Hymnal of Praise #408Image
The Hymnal of the Evangelical United Brethren Church #d65
The Hymnal of the Reformed Church in the United States #d108
The Hymnal: Published by Authority of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. #d73
The Jewel: a selection of hymns and tunes for the Sabbath school, designed as a supplement to "The Gem" #205Image
The Liturgy and the Office of Worship and Hymns of the American Province of the Unitas Fratrum, or the Moravian Church #1375Image
The Mennonite Hymnary, published by the Board of Publication of the General Conference of the Mennonite Church of North America #d79
The New Church Hymnal #d67
The New Hymn and Tune Book #d46
The New Laudes Domini: a selection of spiritual songs, ancient and modern for use in Baptist churches #510Image
The Pilgrim Hymnal #398Image
The Pilgrim Hymnal: with responsive readings and other aids to worship #524Image
The Portfolio of Sunday School Songs #166Image
The Praise Hymnary: a collection of sacred song #426Image
The Reformed Church Hymnal: with tunes #249Image
The Richard Allen A.M.E. Hymnal, with Responsive Scripture Readings. Rev. #d66
The Sanctuary Hymnal, published by Order of the General Conference of the United Brethren in Christ #442Image
The Service of Praise #d48
The Spirit Minstrel. 2nd ed. #d16
Unitarian Service Book, and Hymns for Church and Home. Abridged ed. #d63
Unity Hymns and Chorals. Rev and enl. with Service Elements #d35
University Hymn Book for use in the Chapel of Harvard University #d34
University Hymns #d27
University Hymns: with tunes arranged for men's voices #286bImage
University Hymns: with tunes arranged for men's voices #286aImage
Worship in Song #d44
Worship in Song: a selection of hymns and tunes for the Service of the Sanctuary #684Image