God is Still Speaking...
George Rawson (1807-1889) wrote this hymn in the 1850s based on the final words
Pastor John Robinson gave to the Pilgrims before they journeyed to the New World.
We limit not the truth of God to our poor reach of mind --
By notions of our day and sect -- crude, partial and confined.
No, let a new and better hope within our hearts be stirred,
For God hath yet more light and truth to break forth from the Word.
Who dares to bind to one's own sense the oracles of heaven,
For all the nations, tongues, and climes and all the ages given?
That universe, how much unknown! that ocean unexplored,
For God hath yet more light and truth to break forth from the Word.
Eternal God, Incarnate Word, Spirit of flame and dove,
Enlarge, expand all living souls to comprehend your love;
And help us all to seek your will with wiser powers conferred,
O God, grant yet more light and truth to break forth from the Word.