78 O Light of Gentile Nations

1 O Light of Gentile nations, O Savior from above, Drawn by your Spirit's leading, We come with joy and love Into your holy temple And wait with rev'rent mind As Simeon once had waited His God and Lord to find. 2 Dear Lord, your servants meet you In ev'ry holy place Where your true Word has promised That we should see your face. Today you still allow us Who gather round you here In arms of faith to hold you As did that aged seer. 3 Lord, when life's troubles touch us, You seem to hide your face, And through our tears we often Can scarcely sense your grace. Then be our joy and brightness, Our cheer in pain and loss, Our sun in darkest terror, The glory round our cross. 4 Let us, O Lord, be faithful Like Simeon to the end So that his prayer exultant May from our hearts ascend: "O Lord, now let your servant Depart in peace, I pray, Since I have seen my Savior And here beheld his day."