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Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal · No. 217 · Words: Horatius Bonar
The Church Has Waited Long
Create PowerPoint slides from this hymn →A hymn by Scottish minister Horatius Bonar (1808–1889) voicing the church's longing for Christ's return. It moves from present suffering and exile to confident hope of seeing him face to face and sharing his glory.
Verse 1
The church has waited long
Her absent Lord to see;
And still in loneliness she waits,
A friendless stranger she.
Verse 2
How long, O Lord our God,
Holy and true and good,
Wilt Thou not judge Thy suffering church,
Her sighs and tears and blood?
Verse 3
We long to hear Thy voice,
To see Thee face to face,
To share Thy crown and glory then,
As now we share Thy grace.
Verse 4
Come, Lord, and wipe away
The curse, the sin, the stain,
And make this blighted world of ours
Thine own fair world again.
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