O Word Of God Incarnate
- Words:
- William W. How
- Music:
- Hassert's Neuvermehrtes Gesangbuch, Har. by Felix Mendelssohn
Sheet music
- 1O word of God incarnateO wisdom from on high,O truth unchanged, unchanging,O light of our dark sky,We praise Thee for the radianceThat from the hallowed page,A lantern to our footsteps,Shines on from age to age.
- 2The church from her dear MasterReceived the gift divine,And still that light she liftethO’er all the earth to shine.It is the golden casket,Where gems of truth are stored;It is the heav’n-drawn pictureOf Christ, the living Word.
- 3It floateth like a bannerBefore God’s host unfurled;It shineth like a beaconAbove the darkling world.It is the chart and compassThat o’er life’s surging sea,‘Mid mists and rocks and quick-sands,Still guides, O Christ, to Thee.
- 4O make Thy church, dear Savior,A lamp of purest gold,To bear before the nationsThy true light, as of old.O teach Thy wandering pilgrimsBy this their path to trace,Till, clouds and darkness ended,They see Thee face to face.Amen.
In the hymnals
- Written in 1867, the words are in 530 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music and words are from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.