“OUT of Egypt”—called of God!
(All its curse and bondage gone;
Israel takes the Canaan-road,
There to serve and dwell alone.
Desert-gifts bestrew the way,
Comforting with staff and rod,
Fire by night and cloud by day,
Living streams and bread of God.
Jordan cleaves its judgment-sea,
Driven back at God’s command;
Over—on to Gilgal, free—
Israel conquers Canaan’s land.
Forward, through the great highway,
Jesus leads His pilgrim-race,
Keeping rank, with bright array,
Purged by Gilgal’s power and grace,
There reproach is rolled away,
Dead and buried through His love;
There the resurrection lay
Wakes and waits the song above.
Dead with Christ, by faith, we rise
Far above the bounds of space;
There in Him, above the skies,
Seated in the heavenly place.
Quenched is every judgment claim—
Quenched by water and by blood,
By one offering of the Lamb—
Priceless, spotless Lamb of God.
Soon with Him in yonder sky,
There enraptured round the throne,
Saints will shout the victory,
“Thou art worthy, Thou alone.”
C. F. C.