{"id":692,"date":"2010-04-11T20:35:07","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T20:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdahymnal.spicercampus.com\/hymnal\/?p=692"},"modified":"2017-08-13T16:43:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T16:43:59","slug":"348-the-church-has-one-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/348-the-church-has-one-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"348 \u2013 The Church Has One Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"

1
\nThe church’s one foundation
\nis Jesus Christ her Lord;
\nshe is his new creation
\nby water and the Word.
\nFrom heaven he came and sought her
\nto be his holy bride;
\nwith his own blood he bought her,
\nand for her life he died.<\/p>\n

2
\nElect from every nation,
\nyet one o’er all the earth;
\nher charter of salvation,
\none Lord, one faith, one birth;
\none holy name she blesses,
\npartakes one holy food,
\nand to one hope she presses,
\nwith every grace endued.<\/p>\n

3
\nThough with a scornful wonder
\nwe see her sore oppressed,
\nby schisms rent asunder,
\nby heresies distressed,
\nyet saints their watch are keeping;
\ntheir cry goes up, “How long?”
\nAnd soon the night of weeping
\nshall be the morn of song.<\/p>\n

4
\n‘Mid toil and tribulation,
\nand tumult of her war,
\nshe waits the consummation
\nof peace forevermore;
\ntill, with the vision glorious,
\nher longing eyes are blest,
\nand the great church victorious
\nshall be the church at rest.<\/p>\n

348 <\/p>\n

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