The Army and Navy Hymnal/Hymns/Christ for the World We Sing

by Samuel Wolcott(Italian Hymn by Felice de Giardini)

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Christ for the World We Sing

(ITALIAN HYMN. 6, 6, 4, 6, 6, 6, 4)

Samuel Wolcott, 1869

Felice de Giardini, 1769

1. Christ for the world we sing!
   The world to Christ we bring
   With loving zeal;
   The poor, and them that mourn,
   The faint and overborne,
   Sin sick and sorrow worn,
   Whom Christ doth heal.
   
2. Christ for the world we sing!
   The world to Christ we bring
   With fervent prayer;
   The wayward and the lost,
   By restless passion tossed,
   Redeemed at countless cost
   From dark despair.
   
3. Christ for the world we sing!
   The world to Christ we bring
   With one accord;
   With us the work to share,
   With us reproach to dare,
   With us the cross to bear
   For Christ our Lord. Amen.