Sacred Music Friday: Christ is Alive

This is from my friends at First Plymouth Church in Lincoln Nebraska. The hymn tune is Truro, which was the tune we used for “O Life That Maketh All Things New” at First Unitarian Church of Oklahoma City back in the early 1980s. It brings back good memories. Lyrics are below.

1. O Life that makest all things new,
The blooming earth, the thoughts of men,
Our pilgrim feet, wet with Thy dew,
In gladness hither turn again.

2. From hand to hand the greeting flows,
From eye to eye the signals run,
From heart to heart the bright hope glows,
The seekers of the Light are one.

3. One in the freedom of the truth,
One in the joys of paths untrod,
One in the soul’s perennial youth,
One in the larger thought of God.

4. The freer step, the fuller breath,
The wide horizon’s grander view,
The sense of life that knows no death,
The Life that maketh all things new!

— Samuel Longfellow