Devotional for Febraury 20

And will the great eternal God

On earth establish his abode?

And will he, from his radiant throne,

Accept our temples for his own?

 

These walls we to thy honor raise;

Long may they echo to thy praise;

And thou, descending, fill the place

With choicest tokens of thy grace.

 

Here let the great Redeemer reign,

With all the graces of his train;

While power divine his word attends,

To conquer foes, and cheer his friends.

 

And in the great decisive day,

When God the nations shall survey,

May it before the world appear

That crowds were born to glory here.

 Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church: With Tunes for Congregational Worship (1857, Carlton and Porter, New York).