Poetical Sermons
God Is Light
Sing your songs of love today
To your Heavenly Father pray
Thanks that He has restored here
That for which we need not fear
Here 'neath Liberty's fair light
We've been given freedom's right
In Israel's God our trust to plight
And to sing the song to man
The song of Moses and the Lamb
Revelations from on high
God our Father's ever nigh
No need to be tossed to and fro
A God or light we all can know
It would God's power and might provoke
If in words only it was spoke
When in power and much assurance He
Has said it should be given thee
That the anointing ye receive
It should abide and not deceive
We know the angel now has flown
To all the world be this truth known
Bearing the gem the Pearl of Price
The testimony of our Christ
The familiar spirit Prophecy
The everlasting Gospel's key
The Angel of Ephraim's seed was He
Moroni, Mormon's son to thee
The stick of Joseph did reveal
Israel to raise in freedom's field
That God can search, seek out we've found
The stick of Joseph with Judea's bound
The falling away foretold came first
In through whose darkness light should burst
Christ's witnesses asleep have spoke
From their spirit of deep slumbers woke
The other fold Christ went to see
A remnant of captivity
Meek from the ground their voice and low
Yet mighty through its truth to grow
Here in freedom's land behold
From the graves of Israel to unfold
That Ezekiel did behold and see
From their dry bones of his prophesy
That Jacob need not be ashamed
Through its multitudes be strangers came
The blind and deaf to hear and see
Far-out as from obscurity
That God did give sweet freedom's crown
To raise up the plant renown
On the height of the mountain of Israel He
Did plant and has brought forth to be
His strange act most mysterious plan
From the God of the loved Abraham
Here in this land of freedom's love
Again man's called of God above
Being called of God on high
For his word of truth did die
It bears the vesture dipped in blood
For Jesus whom we know and love
Who would not kill the prophets? No
Had they been living long ago
Who has been proved all to fulfill
His spirit truth is living still
Hungered did you give him meat?
A stranger did you take him in
To clothe and quench his thirst with love?
In prison to come unto him
Who lacking wisdom asked of God
To prove His Spirit truth no fraud
With ears to hear and soul to pray
His Spirit truth did lead the way
The power of God by love unfeigning
In stripes impose on men in pain
In watching laborer's fasting prayer
The testimony all was there
The same Spirit of faith accordingly
That death worketh in to put life in you
Delivered to death for Jesus' sake
Proving itself to be the true
Persecuted but not forsaken
Not distressed though troubled on every side
Bearing about it in the body the suffering of Jesus
Manifesting the truth as the Spirit does guide
The Gospel in pain to be delivered
That brought forth the Christ evil came to destroy
Being caught up unto God and to God's Kingdom
On two wings of a great eagle she did fly
the wilderness this sacred land of promise
To carry her away as a flood to others came
The earth opened her mouth and the earth helped her
In the war against sweet freedom was her gain
Through the familiar Spirit's voice
We hear the House of Israel say,
"Better far to trust in God
Your confidence in princes stay
Sweet Liberty has arose
Through this humble sacrifice
The Kingdom to be took away
And given to another nation
As a witness of its truth today
Stands prophecy through Revelation
Through the blessings of whose light we reap
The sayings of His book to keep
Not to interpret privately
But through His gift of power to be
His sanctuary work of His hands
The testimony of His gifted band
Shining with light that is eminent to see
While He in His vengeance proclaims it to be"
Sing your songs of love today
From all ye nations sing and pray
Long may the emblem of the free
Wave o'er a land of liberty
Christ's righteous light did go before
The ways and means for God explore
To break the yoke of tyranny
And crown Him King of Kings to be
What power hath kings o'er freedom's land
When God's controlling mighty hand
Through His spirit prophecy foretold
No king should raise o'er Zion's fold.
Sing your songs of love today
To your Heavenly Father pray
Thanks that He has restored here
That for which we need not fear
Here 'neath Liberty's fair light
We've been given freedom's right
In Israel's God our trust to plight
And to sing the song to man
The song of Moses and the Lamb
Revelations from on high
God our Father's ever nigh
No need to be tossed to and fro
A God or light we all can know
It would God's power and might provoke
If in words only it was spoke
When in power and much assurance He
Has said it should be given thee
That the anointing ye receive
It should abide and not deceive
We know the angel now has flown
To all the world be this truth known
Bearing the gem the Pearl of Price
The testimony of our Christ
The familiar spirit Prophecy
The everlasting Gospel's key
The Angel of Ephraim's seed was He
Moroni, Mormon's son to thee
The stick of Joseph did reveal
Israel to raise in freedom's field
That God can search, seek out we've found
The stick of Joseph with Judea's bound
The falling away foretold came first
In through whose darkness light should burst
Christ's witnesses asleep have spoke
From their spirit of deep slumbers woke
The other fold Christ went to see
A remnant of captivity
Meek from the ground their voice and low
Yet mighty through its truth to grow
Here in freedom's land behold
From the graves of Israel to unfold
That Ezekiel did behold and see
From their dry bones of his prophesy
That Jacob need not be ashamed
Through its multitudes be strangers came
The blind and deaf to hear and see
Far-out as from obscurity
That God did give sweet freedom's crown
To raise up the plant renown
On the height of the mountain of Israel He
Did plant and has brought forth to be
His strange act most mysterious plan
From the God of the loved Abraham
Here in this land of freedom's love
Again man's called of God above
Being called of God on high
For his word of truth did die
It bears the vesture dipped in blood
For Jesus whom we know and love
Who would not kill the prophets? No
Had they been living long ago
Who has been proved all to fulfill
His spirit truth is living still
Hungered did you give him meat?
A stranger did you take him in
To clothe and quench his thirst with love?
In prison to come unto him
Who lacking wisdom asked of God
To prove His Spirit truth no fraud
With ears to hear and soul to pray
His Spirit truth did lead the way
The power of God by love unfeigning
In stripes impose on men in pain
In watching laborer's fasting prayer
The testimony all was there
The same Spirit of faith accordingly
That death worketh in to put life in you
Delivered to death for Jesus' sake
Proving itself to be the true
Persecuted but not forsaken
Not distressed though troubled on every side
Bearing about it in the body the suffering of Jesus
Manifesting the truth as the Spirit does guide
The Gospel in pain to be delivered
That brought forth the Christ evil came to destroy
Being caught up unto God and to God's Kingdom
On two wings of a great eagle she did fly
the wilderness this sacred land of promise
To carry her away as a flood to others came
The earth opened her mouth and the earth helped her
In the war against sweet freedom was her gain
Through the familiar Spirit's voice
We hear the House of Israel say,
"Better far to trust in God
Your confidence in princes stay
Sweet Liberty has arose
Through this humble sacrifice
The Kingdom to be took away
And given to another nation
As a witness of its truth today
Stands prophecy through Revelation
Through the blessings of whose light we reap
The sayings of His book to keep
Not to interpret privately
But through His gift of power to be
His sanctuary work of His hands
The testimony of His gifted band
Shining with light that is eminent to see
While He in His vengeance proclaims it to be"
Sing your songs of love today
From all ye nations sing and pray
Long may the emblem of the free
Wave o'er a land of liberty
Christ's righteous light did go before
The ways and means for God explore
To break the yoke of tyranny
And crown Him King of Kings to be
What power hath kings o'er freedom's land
When God's controlling mighty hand
Through His spirit prophecy foretold
No king should raise o'er Zion's fold.
