Hymn 76

Melody
  1. Thank the Lord and come with praise;
    songs of jubilation raise
    when the crop is gathered in
    ere the winter storms begin.
    God, our Maker, will provide
    for our wants to be supplied.
    Let his people all confess
    his unchanging faithfulness.

  2. All this world is God’s own field,
    fruit unto his praise to yield –
    wheat and tares, together sown,
    unto joy or sorrow grown;
    first the blade and then the ear,
    then shall golden grain appear.
    Lord of harvest, grant that we
    pure and wholesome wheat may be.

  3. For the Son of Man shall come
    and shall take his harvest home.
    From his field he shall that day
    all offences purge away,
    give his angels charge at last
    into fire the tares to cast
    but the fruitful grain to store
    in his garner evermore.

  4. Lord, we pray thee, quickly come;
    bear thy final harvest home.
    Gather thou thy people in,
    freed from sorrow, freed from sin.
    They, forever purified,
    in thy presence will abide.
    Come with all thy angels, come;
    bear thy glorious harvest home.