The Church’s one foundation Is Jesus Christ her Lord, She is His new creation By water and the Word. From Heav’n He came and sought her To be His holy bride; With His own blood He bought her And for her life He died.
She is from every nation, Yet one o’er all the earth; Her charter of salvation, One Lord, one faith, one birth; One holy name she blesses, Partakes one holy food, And to one hope she presses, With every grace endued.
The Church shall never perish! Her dear Lord to defend, To guide, sustain, and cherish, Is with her to the end: Though there be those who hate her, And false sons in her pale, Against both foe or traitor She ever shall prevail.
Though with a scornful wonder Men see her sore oppressed, By schisms rent asunder, By heresies distressed: Yet saints their watch are keeping, Their cry goes up, How long? And soon the night of weeping Shall be the morn of song!
’Mid toil and tribulation, And tumult of her war, She waits the consummation Of peace forevermore; Till, with the vision glorious, Her longing eyes are blest, And the great Church victorious Shall be the Church at rest.
Yet she on earth hath union With God the Three in One, And mystic sweet communion With those whose rest is won, With all her sons and daughters Who, by the Master’s hand Led through the deathly waters, Repose in Eden land.
O happy ones and holy! Lord, give us grace that we Like them, the meek and lowly, On high may dwell with Thee: There, past the border mountains, Where in sweet vales the Bride With Thee by living fountains Forever shall abide!
—Samuel J. Stone
The boy playing the violin in this video is 11 years old.
Other hymns, worship songs, sermons etc. posted today:
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Added the quote from J. I. Packer’s 18 Words that I posted yesterday.
Fixed a messed up link.
Changed the link to the lecture from Wayne Grudem’s Christian Essentials class because the Scottsdale Bible Church links are unreliable. (They’re not working as I write). All the mp3s were uploaded recently to Monergism.com (see here) and I figure that’s a more stable site for linking. The lecture linked in this post is The Final Judgment and Eternal Punishment.
Monday, March 12, 2012 at 10:19PM 
