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<title>BLB Hymns</title>
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<h2>O WORD OF GOD INCARNATE</h2>
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<p align="center"><h3>“The Word became flesh and dwelt among us.” John 1:14</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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<td><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_h_o_how_ww.jpg" alt="William Walsham How (1823-1897)" width="112.666666666667" height="180.666666666667"></td>
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<td><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_h_o_how_ww.html" target="_blank">William Walsham How</a>, 1867.
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<p><em>Music:</em> “Munich,” <em>Neuvermehrtes Gesangbuch</em> (Meiningen, Germa<em></em>ny: 1693); harmony by <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_m_e_mendelssohn_f.html" target="_blank">Felix Mendelssohn</a>, 1847 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_m_munich.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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<li>“Lancashire,” <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_s_m_smart_ht.html" target="_blank">Henry Thomas Smart</a>, 1835 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_l_lancshir.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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<td><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_m_e_mendelssohn_f.jpg" alt="Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)" width="133.333333333333" height="198.666666666667"></td>
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<p>O Word of God incarnate, O Wisdom from on high,<br>
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O Truth unchanged, unchanging, O Light of our dark sky:<br>
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We praise You for the radiance that from the hallowed page,<br>
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A Lantern to our footsteps, shines on from age to age.</p>
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<p>The Church from You, our Savior, received the Gift divine,<br>
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And still that Light is lifted over all the earth to shine.<br>
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It is the sacred Vessel where gems of truth are stored;<br>
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It is the heaven drawn Picture of Christ, the living Word.</p>
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<p>The Scripture is a banner before God’s host unfurled;<br>
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It is a shining Beacon above the darkling world.<br>
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It is the Chart and Compass that over life’s surging tide,<br>
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Mid mists and rocks and quicksands, to You, O Christ, will guide.</p>
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<p>O make your Church, dear Savior, a lamp of purest gold,<br>
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To bear before the nations Your true light as of old.<br>
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O teach your wandering pilgrims by this their path to trace,<br>
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Till, clouds and darkness ended, they see You face to face.</p>
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