{
  "title": "O Word of God Incarnate",
  "author": "",
  "tune": "Munich",
  "number": "267",
  "lyrics": "O Word of God Incarnate,\nO Wisdom from on high,\nO Truth unchanged, unchanging,\nO light of our dark sky;\nWe praise thee for the radiance\nThat from the hallowed page,\nA lantern to our footsteps\nShines on from age to age.\n\nThe church from her dear Master\nReceived the gift divine,\nAnd still that light she lifteth\nO'er all the earth to shine.\nIt is the golden casket,\nWhere gems of truth are stored;\nIt is the heav'n-drawn picture\nOf Christ, the living Word.\n\nIt floateth like a banner\nBefore God's host unfurled;\nIt shineth like a beacon\nAbove the darkling world.\nIt is the chart and compass\nThat o'er life's surging sea,\n'Mid mists and rocks and quicksands,\nStill guides, O Christ, to thee.\n\nO make thy church, dear Saviour,\nA lamp of purest gold,\nTo bear before the nations\nThy true light, as of old.\nO teach thy wand'ring pilgrims\nBy this their path to trace,\nTill, clouds and darkness ended,\nThey see thee face to face.",
  "first_line": "O Word of God Incarnate,"
}