God is There

While the world was wrapped in silence, Winter night's swift course half-run, God's almighty Word of Wisdom From her heavenly place leaped down!

To a people battered, bleeding, Ruled by rapine, fire, and fist, Came a pledge of peace and healing, Of God's kingdom in their midst.

Where we call no man our master But are kin and equals all, Rich and homeless feast together— God is there to grace the hall.

May the towers of empire empty, All that greed and guns devise; May the Christ, new-born among us Plant the seeds of paradise.

—Music of "Evening Prayer" by George C. Stebbins