Verse 1
Come, Saviour, from above,
Our dear redeeming Lord,
And twist us by thy dying love
Into a threefold cord;
Friendship that shall endure
Long as the life of God,
Indissolubly strong, and pure
As Thy cementing blood.

Verse 2
Thy love which passeth thought
In every heart reveal,
And by a common ransom bought
We one salvation feel;
We one salvation given
To desperate sinners show,
And preach the throne of God in heaven
Set up in man below.

Verse 3
For this raised up by Thee,
And on Thy message sent,
With primitive simplicity
To the highways we went;
Nor scrip nor purse we took,
But cast the world behind,
But cheerfully our all forsook,
Our all in Thee to find:

Verse 4
Our sole desire and aim
Perishing souls to win,
Collect the outcasts in Thy name,
And force them to come in;
As thunder’s sons to rouse
The dead that cannot die,
And fill with guests the lower house,
And fit them for the sky.

Verse 5
For this we still remain,
By labours undeprest,
And feel the love revive again
That warm’d our youthful breast:
Thou dost the zeal revive,
The first uniting grace,
And bid us to Thy glory live
Our last and happiest days.

Verse 6
Thy mind we surely know,
In which we now agree,
And hand in hand exulting go
To final victory:
Obedient to Thy will,
We put forth all our fire,
Our ministerial work fulfil,
And in a blaze expire.