SAINTS' DAYS: ST. JOHN BAPTIST
2 John;—by that chosen name
To call him, Gabriel came
By God’s appointment from his home on high:
What deeds that babe should do
To manhood when he grew,
God sent his Angel forth to testify.
Unison. 3 There is none greater, none,
Than Zachariah's son;
Than this no mightier prophet hath been born:
Of prophets he may claim
More than a prophet's fame;
Sublimer deeds than theirs his brow adorn.
4 'Lo, to prepare thy way,'
Did God the Father say,
'Before thy face my messenger I send,
Thy coming to forerun;
As on the orient sun
Doth the bright daystar morn by morn attend.'
Unison. 5. Praise therefore God most high;
Praise him who came to die
For us, his Son that liveth evermore;
And to the Spirit raise,
The Comforter, like praise,
While time endureth, and when time is o'er.
Amen.
(No. 9 is also suitable.)
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