Samuel John Stone

Samuel John Stone (25 April 1839 – 19 November 1900) was an English poet, hymnodist, and a priest in the Church of England.

Quotes

• The Church’s one foundation
    Is Jesus Christ her Lord;
  She is His new creation
    By water and the Word.
  • "The Church's One Foundation", in Lyra Fidelium (1866)

• Yet Saints their watch are keeping,
    Their cry goes up, ‘How long?’
  And soon the night of weeping
    Shall be the morn of song.
  • "The Church's One Foundation", in Lyra Fidelium (1866)

• ’Mid toil and tribulation,
    And tumult of her war,
  She waits the consummation
    Of peace for evermore;
  Till with the vision glorious
    Her longing eyes are blest,
  And the great Church victorious
    Shall be the Church at rest.
  • "The Church's One Foundation", in Lyra Fidelium (1866)

• Weary of earth and laden with my sin,
  I look at heaven, and long to enter in.
  • "Weary of Earth and Laden", in Lyra Fidelium (1866)