Eternal Light by: Thomas Binny

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Eternal Light (Eternal Light)

Text by: Thomas Binny 1826
Tune: Eternal Light by: Kenneth E Runkle 1941
Source: Episcopal 1940 Hymnal #478

Here is my complete recording of the Episcopal 1940 Hymnbook:

1 Eternal Light! eternal Light!
How pure the soul must be
When, placed within Thy searching sight,
It shrinks not, but with calm delight
Can live, and look on Thee!

2 The spirits that surround Thy throne
May bear the burning bliss;
But that is surely theirs alone,
Since they have never, never known
A fallen world like this.

3 O how shall I, whose native sphere
Is dark, whose mind is dim,
Before the Ineffable appear,
And on my naked spirit bear
That uncreated beam?

4 There is a way for man to rise
To that sublime abode:
An offering and a sacrifice,
A Holy Spirit’s energies,
An Advocate with God.

5 These, these prepare us for the sight
Of holiness above;
The sons of ignorance and night,
May dwell in the eternal Light,
Through the eternal Love.

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