Before the Ancient One, Christ Stands

All Creation Sings #953 Text: Susan Palo Cherwien

Music: Robert Buckley Farlee

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Be - fore the An - cient One, Christ stands, en -
Who was, who is, and is to come as

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robed in cloud and bright as snow, five wounds im -
ser - vant lived in hu - man sphere; com - pas - sion

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print his side, feet, hands, and thorns, the gar - land
was his di - a - dem; his glo - ry was the

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on his brow. Yet thrones and pow'rs fall to the knee and
gen - tle tear; hu - mil - i - ty, his pur - ple garb; the

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weave a song of maj - es - ty, for what the
heal - ing hand, his roy - al orb. Such love drew

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world ad - mires as gain, is not the es - sence
ire and ire drew death, but God has proved the

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of Christ's reign, and strength is his, and name and
tru - er strength, and through all space the host pro -

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might, be - cause he pit - ied hu - mans' plight.
claims the name a - bove all oth - er names.
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Now in the lat - ter days you call. O

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Christ, and plead the prem - ise clear, that pow - er

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grasped is none at all, and serv - ing shows your

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Spir - it near. As na - tions clash and wis - dom wanes, as

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glo - ries tempt and greed sus - tains, you bid to

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choose in ev - 'ry hour the pow'r of love, the

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great - est pow'r, that love may her - ald God's do

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main, and you, at last, may come to reign.