Hymns - Biblical Trace of the Church - Текст песни

1. The church of the morning bright,
 Like crystal so clear her light,
 Triumphant, she knew no fears;
 In finest white linen dressed;
 Pure holiness she possessed,
 Two hundred and sev???nty years.
 * Refrain:
 Hell never can destroy the church,
 Built by the Savior???s hands;
 Upon the Rock, the solid Rock,
 Christ Jesus, still she stands;
 Despite of persecution???s flood,
 And gates of hell forsooth;
 She???s still the kingdom of the Lord,
 The pillar of the truth.
 2. The sun went down ere his time,
 The moon also ceased to shine,
 Left Zion in bitter tears;
 No star then appeared in sight,
 Oh, long dreary papal night!
 Twelve hundred and sixty years.
 3. A rising the sun of day,
 Disperses the night away
 While popery quakes with fears;
 Shone dimly the gospel ray,
 There followed a cloudy day???
 Three hundred and fifty years.
 4. We welcome the evening light;
 The gospel so clear and bright
 Breaks forth as in days of yore;
 The mists are all cleared away,
 All hail the supernal day!
 The sun shall go down no more.