1. Captain of Israel’s host, and guide

Captain of Israel’s host, and guide Of all who seek the land above, Beneath thy shadow we abide The cloud of thy protecting love Our strength, thy grace our rule thy word Our end, the glory of the Lord

By thine unerring spirit led, We shall not in the desert stray; We shall not full direction need, Nor miss our providential way As far from danger, as from fear While love, Almighty love is near. MHB 608, Charles Wesley 62

The church’s one foundation Is Jesus Christ, her Lord; She is his new creation By water and the word; From heaven he came and sought her To be his holy bride With his own blood he bought her And for her life he died

Elect from every nation Yet one o’er all the earth Her charter of salvation One Lord, one faith, one birth: One holy name she blesses Partakes one holy food And to one hope she presses With every grace endured.

Though with a scornful wonder Men see her sore oppressed By schisms rent asunder, By heresies distressed, Yet saints their watch are keeping Their cry goes up ‘How long’? And soon the night of weeping Shall be the morn of songs 21

‘Mid toil, and tribulation, and tumult of her war She waits the consummation Of peace for evermore; ‘Till with the vision glorious Her longing eyes are blest And the great Church victorous Shall be the Church at rest.

Yet she on earth hath union With God the three in One And mystic sweet communion With those whose rest is won O happy ones and holy! Lord, give us grace that we, Like them, the meek and lowly On high may dwell with thee.