The Church Renewed.

WHEN forth from its Creator's hand The earth in beauty stood, All decked with light at his command, He saw and called it good.

When he who gave his guiltless Son, A guilty world to spare, Restored to life the Holy One, What love divine was there.

But still more lovely in his sight, The church now stands renewed, Since he, the Lamb, hath made it white, In his atoning blood.

The holy blessed three in One May thy pure light be giv'n, That we the path of death may shun, And keep the way to heav'n.