Disposer Supreme, and Judge of the Earth

 

VERSE 1

Disposer supreme, and Judge of the earth,

Who choosest for Thine the weak and the poor;

To frail earthen vessels and things of no worth

Entrusting Thy riches which aye shall endure.

 

VERSE 2

Those vessels soon fail, though full of Thy light,

And at Thy decree, are broken and gone;

Thence brightly appeareth Thy truth in its might,

As through the clouds riven the lightnings have shone.

 

VERSE 3

Like clouds they are borne to do Thy great will,

And swift as the winds about the world go;

The Word with His wisdom their spirits doth fill,

They thunder, they lighten, the waters o’erflow.

 

VERSE 4

Their sound goeth forth, “Christ Jesus the Lord”;

Then Satan doth fear, his citadels fall;

As when the dread trumpets went forth at Thy Word,

And one long blast shattered the Canaanite’s wall.

 

VERSE 5

O loud be their trump, and stirring their sound,

To rouse us, O Lord, from slumber of sin;

The lights Thou hast kindled in darkness around,

O may they illumine our spirits within.

 

VERSE 6

All honor and praise, dominion and might,

To God, Three in One, eternally be;

Who round us hath shed His own marvelous light,

And called us from darkness His glory to see.

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