Hymn for Presbyterian Heritage Sunday
God, May Your Justice Roll Down
text: Carolyn Gillette

LOBE DEN HERREN 14.14.4.7.8 ("Praise Ye the Lord, the Almighty")

God, may your justice roll down like the waters you send here,
And may your righteousness flow like a stream without end here!
Praying this prayer, many have struggled and dared,
All for the world you intend here.

Christ, we give thanks for past saints who renewed education,
Freed the oppressed, brought your healing and fought segregation.
Savior and Lord, great were the risks they endured,
Bearing your hope and salvation.

We as your church now remember these stories of others
And pray your Spirit will send us, as your sons and daughters.
Show us the way we, too, can serve you each day
Till justice rolls down like waters.

Tune: Straisund Ernewerten Gesangbuch, 1665. Harm. The Chorale Book for England, 1863
Text: Copyright © 2001 by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette. All rights reserved.
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The Presbyterian Historical Society/OGA's Department of History commissioned Carolyn to write a hymn based on this year's theme. A copy of the hymn was included in the latest Info-Pak along with other helpful resources for Presbyterian Heritage Sunday. You can download the 2001 bulletin cover and list of ideas in reproducible Adobe Acrobat format along with a select bibliography is also online: http://www.history.pcusa.org/cong/heritage.html

Bruce Gillette adds: "Carolyn is happy to give permission to PCUSA churches for one-time free use of this hymn. We do appreciate your understanding of the request that the copyright information be printed with the hymn text. Presbyweb readers are welcome to share the hymn with other pastors in their presbytery or other online friends, but please include the copyright information."

A complete list of Carolyn's hymns, including links to a dozen of the hymn texts posted online as well as information on her book of new hymns (Gifts of Love: New Hymns for Today's Worship, Geneva Press, 2000): http://www.firstpresby.org/hymnlist.htm

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