All who love and serve your city

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1.
All who love and serve your city,
all who bear its daily stress,
all who cry for peace and justice,
all who curse and all who bless:

2.
In your day of loss and sorrow,
in your day of helpless strife,
honor, peace, and love retreating,
seek the Lord, who is your life.

3.
In your day of wealth and plenty,
wasted work and wasted play,
call to mind the word of Jesus,
"Work ye yet while it is day."

4.
For all days are days of judgment,
and the Lord is waiting still,
drawing near to all who spurn him,
off'ring peace from Calv'ry's hill.

5.
Risen Lord, shall yet the city
be the city of despair?  
Come today, our Judge, our Glory,
be its name, "The Lord is there!"

Words:  Erik Routley, 1966, Dunblane Praises II, 1967
                    Text copyright © 1969 Galliard Ltd.
   Tune:  U.S. Sacred Harmony, 1799

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