I’ve heard of a Kingdom
With riches divine,
Whose border is linked
With glory’s fair clime.
Oh! a Kingdom set up
By God in His Grace,
A Kingdom of fulness
For Adam’s lost race.
How great is this Kingdom!
What riches within!
And all for poor sinners,
For Jesus is King.
He purchased all riches
By ‘s death on the tree;
And offers them now
Without price to thee.
But where is this Kingdom
With all the rich store?
Oh! friend, it’s so near you;
Oh! just at your door.
The word of the Kingdom
That tells its great fame,
Says, “Ask for all wants,
And in the King’s name.”
Though poor, blind, and naked,
Alas! is our case:
But for such was set up
The Kingdom of Grace.
And the King is still calling,
Then why should we doubt:
“Him that cometh to me
I’ll no wise cast out.”
J. A., Helmsdale.
When God elected His people in Christ, and reconciled them to Himself in Him, He foresaw all the evil that would be in them both before and after their conversion; and if this did not prevent His choosing and calling them, it never can be the cause of His casting them off, seeing they are loved in Christ, in whom they are always viewed without any spot of sin.—Sir R. Hill.