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Song about the gathering of Israel:
Israel, Israel, God Is Calling
Verse 1
Israel, Israel, God is calling,
Calling thee from lands of woe.
Babylon the great is falling;
God shall all her towers o'er throw.
Come to Zion, come to Zion
Ere his floods of anger flow.
Come to Zion, come to Zion!
Ere his floods of anger flow.
Verse 2
Israel, Israel, God is speaking.
Hear your great Deliverer's voice!
Now a glorious morn is breaking
For the people of his choice.
Come to Zion, come to Zion,
And within her walls rejoice.
Come to Zion, come to Zion!
And within her walls rejoice.
Verse 3
Israel, angels are descending
From celestial worlds on high,
And to man their power extending,
That the Saints may homeward fly.
Come to Zion, come to Zion,
For your coming Lord is nigh.
Come to Zion, come to Zion,
For your coming Lord is nigh.
Verse 4
Israel! Israel! Canst thou linger
Still in error's gloomy ways?
Mark how judgement's pointing finger
Justifies no vain delays.
Come to Zion, come to Zion!
Zion's walls shall ring with praise.
Come to Zion, come to Zion!
Zion's walls shall ring with praise.
Source: Hymns, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1962. 81.
Song about the Word of Wisdom
The Lord Imparted from Above
Verse 1
The Lord imparted from above
The "Word of Wisdom" for our blessing,
But shall it unto manly prove
A gift is not worth possessing?
Verse 2
Have we not been divinely taught
To heed its voice, and highly prize it?
Then who shall once indulge the thought,
It can be better to despise it?
Verse 3
Has self-denial grown a task?
Or has that word been vainly spoken?
Or why, I fain would humbly ask,
Why is that word so often broken?
Verse 4
O, that the Saints would all regard
Each gracious word that God has given.
And prize the favor of the Lord
Above all things beneath the heaven!
Song about the Garden of Eden (Independance, Missouri.)
This Earth Was Once a Garden Place
Verse 1
This earth was once a garden place,
With all her glories common,
And men did live a holy race,
And worship Jesus face to face,
In Adam-ondi-Ahman.
Verse 2
We read that Enoch walked with God,
Above the pow'r of mammon,
While Zion spread herself abroad,
And Saints and angels sang aloud,
In Adam-ondi-Ahman.
Verse 3
Her land was good and greatly blest,
Beyond all Israel's Canaan;
Her fame was known from east to west,
Her peace was great, and pure the rest
Of Adam-ondi-Ahman.
Verse 4
Hosanna to such days to come,
The Savior's second coming,
When all the earth in glorious bloom
Affords the Saints a holy home,
Like Adam-ondi-Ahman.
Source: Hymns, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1962. 389.
Song about the star Kolob.
If You Could Hie to Kolob
Verse 1
If you could hie to Kolob
In the twinkling of an eye,
And then continue onward
With that same speed to fly,
D'ye think that you could ever,
Through all eternity,
Find out the generation
Where Gods began to be?
Verse 2
Or see the grand beginning,
Where space did not extend?
Or view the last creation,
Where Gods and matter end?
Me thinks the Spirit whispers,
"No man has found 'pure space,'
Nor seen the outside curtains,
Where nothing has a place."
Verse 3
The works of God continue,
And worlds and lives abound;
Improvement and progression
Have one eternal round.
There is no end to matter;
There is no end to space;
There is no end to spirit;
There is no end to race.
Verse 4
There is no end to virtue;
There is no end to might;
There is no end to wisdom;
There is no end to light.
There is no end to union;
There is no end to youth;
There is no end to priesthood;
There is no end to truth.
Verse 5
There is no end to glory;
There is no end to love;
There is no end to being;
There is no death above.
There is no end to glory;
There is no end to love;
There is no end to being;
There is no death above.
Source: Hymns, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1962. 255.