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Should ever do her shame! Her mother-care I'll ever share, Her child I am alone, Till He who gave me to her arms Shall call me to His own. My Church! my Church! my dear old Church! I've heard the tale of blood, Of hearts that loved her to the death-- The great, the wise, the good. Our martyred sires defied the fires For Christ the Crucified; The once-delivered faith to keep They burned, they bled, they died. My Church! my Church! I love my Church, For she exalts my Lord; She speaks, she breathes, she teaches not But from His written Word; And if her voice bids me rejoice, From all my sins released, 'Tis through th' atoning sacrifice, And Jesus is the Priest. My Church! my Church! I love my Church, For she doth lead me on To Zion's palace Beautiful, Where Christ my Lord hath gone. From all below she bids me go To Him, the Life, the Way, The truth to guide my erring feet From darkness into day. Then here, my Church! my dear old Church! Thy child would add a vow To that whose token once was signed Upon his infant brow: Assault who may, kiss and betray, Dishonor and disown, MY CHURCH SHALL YET BE DEAR TO ME, MY FATHERS' AND MY OWN! End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church, by G. H. Gerberding *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WAY OF SALVATION IN THE *** ***** This file should be named 16285.txt or 16285.zip ***** This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/2/8/16285/ Produced by Tom Roch and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be renamed. Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if
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