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<h2>CITY OF GOD, HOW BROAD AND FAR</h2>
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<p align="center"><h3>“I saw the holy city…coming down out of heaven from God.” Revelation 21:2</h3></p>
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<center><b>Hymns Supplied Through the Gracious Generosity<br>of the </b><a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/" target = "_blank"><b>Cyber Hymnal Website</b></a><br><br><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/cyberhymnal_info.html" target = "_blank">Information about Cyber Hymnal Website</a></center>
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<p><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_j_o_johnson_s.jpg" alt="Samuel Johnson (1822-1882)" align="right" hspace="15" vspace="5" width="131.333333333333" height="175.333333333333"><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_j_o_johnson_s.html" target="_blank">Samuel Johnson</a>, <em>Hymns of the Spirit</em>, 1864. The words echo the theme in Saint Augustine’s <em>City of God</em>.
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<p><em>Music:</em> “Richmond (Haweis),” <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_h_a_haweis_t.html" target="_blank">Thomas Haweis</a>, 1792 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_r_richmonh.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<p>City of God, how broad and far<br>
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Outspread thy walls sublime!<br>
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The true thy chartered freemen are<br>
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Of every age and and clime.
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<p>One holy Church, one army strong;<br>
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One steadfast, high intent;<br>
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One working band, one harvest song,<br>
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One King omnipotent.</p>
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<p>How purely hath thy speech come down<br>
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From man’s primeval youth!<br>
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How grandly hath thine empire grown<br>
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Of freedom, love and truth!</p>
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<p>How gleam thy watch fires through the night<br>
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With never fainting ray!<br>
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How rise thy towers, serene and bright,<br>
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To meet the dawning day!</p>
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<p>In vain the surge’s angry shock,<br>
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In vain the drifting sands;<br>
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Unharmed upon the eternal Rock<br>
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The eternal City stands.</p>
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