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.
Christ for the world we sing,
The world to Christ we bring, with fervent prayer;
The wayward and the lost, by restless passions tossed,
Redeemed at countless cost, from dark despair.
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.
Christ for the world we sing,
The world to Christ we bring, with joyful song;
The newborn souls, whose days, reclaimed from error’s ways,
Inspired with hope and praise, to Christ belong.
About the writer: Samuel Wolcott, a Congregational clergyman, was born in South Windsor, Connecticut in 1813. He graduated from Yale in 1833 and Andover Theological Seminary in 1837. He was a missionary in Syria; served as a pastor in various towns and cities, including Providence and Chicago; and later became Secretary of the Ohio Home Missionary Society. He died in 1886. All 200 of his hymns were written later in life after he retired.
Key Verse: In every nation he accepts those who fear him and do what is right. –Acts 10:35