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<h2>O ZION, HASTE</h2>
<h2>(O Christian, Haste)</h2>
<p align="center"><h3>&#8220;Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.&#8221; Matthew 28:19-20</h3></p>
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<p><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_t_h_thomson_maf.jpg" align="right" hspace="15" vspace="5" alt="Mary Ann Faulkner Thomson (1834-1923)" width="133.333333333333" height="200"><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_t_h_thomson_maf.html" target="_blank">Mary Ann Faulkner Thomson</a>, 1868, 1871:</p>
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<p>I wrote the greater part of the hymn, &#8220;O, Sion, Haste,&#8221; in the year 1868. I had written many hymns before, and one night, while I was sitting up with one of my children who was ill with typhoid fever, I thought I should like to write a missionary hymn to the tune of the hymn, &#8220;<a href = "./hymns/hymns_html/htm_h_a_harkhark.html">Hark, Hark, My Soul, Angelic Songs Are Swelling</a>,&#8221; as I was fond of that tune, but as I could not then get a refrain I liked, I left
the hymn unfinished and about three years I finished it by writing the refrain which now forms a part of it.</p>
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<p><em>Music:</em> &#8220;Tidings,&#8221; <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_w_a_walch_j.html" target="_blank">James Walch</a>, 1875 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_t_i_tidings.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</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>O Zion, haste, thy mission high fulfilling,<br>
To tell to all the world that God is light,<br>
That He who made all nations is not willing<br>
One soul should perish, lost in shades of night.</p>
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<p class="refrain">Publish glad tidings, tidings of peace;<br>
Tidings of Jesus, redemption and release.</p>
<p>Behold how many thousands still are lying<br>
Bound in the darksome prison house of sin,<br>
With none to tell them of the Savior&#8217;s dying,<br>
Or of the life He died for them to win.</p>
<p class="refrain">Refrain</p>
<p>Proclaim to every people, tongue, and nation<br>
That God, in Whom they live and move, is love;<br>
Tell how He stooped to save His lost creation,<br>
And died on earth that we might live above.</p>
<p class="refrain">Refrain</p>
<p>&#8217;Tis thine to save from peril of perdition<br>
The souls for whom the Lord His life laid down:<br>
Beware lest, slothful to fulfill thy mission,<br>
Thou lose one jewel that should deck His crown.</p>
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<p>Give of thy sons to bear the message glorious;<br>
Give of thy wealth to speed them on their way;<br>
Pour out thy soul for them in prayer victorious;<br>
O Zion, haste to bring the brighter day.</p>
<p class="refrain">Refrain</p>
<p>He comes again! O Zion, ere thou meet Him,<br>
Make known to every heart His saving grace:<br>
Let none whom he Hath ransomed fail to greet Him,<br>
Through thy neglect, unfit to see His face.</p>
<p class="refrain">Refrain</p>
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