O Cambodia

#800000O CAMBODIA!

#800000In the night I hear the call, ³Return to me!²

#800000My heart responds, ³O Cambodia!  In Christ be free!

#800000Your boys, your girls, your old, your young

#800000reflecting in their mother tongue

#800000of Jesus dying on a cross,

#800000of centuries of death and loss,

#800000of hope unknown and never shown,

#800000of killing unrestrained with nothing gained!²

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#800000O God of love and light and life,

#800000You understand Cambodia¹s strife -

#800000You know her agony and pain -

#800000You¹re reaching to her once again!

#800000The Spirit¹s breath is in the land!

#800000Christ¹s name resounds on ev¹ry hand!

#800000One day around the throne of Grace

#800000we¹ll meet Cambodians face to face

#800000who¹ll say, ³I¹m here because you came.

#800000I never would have heard His name

#800000if you had not said ¹Yes!Œ

#800000when God called you to His business.²

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#800000In Cambodia it¹s harvest time at last,

#800000reminding us of those long passed

#800000who spread the Word that went unheard:

#800000They too shall have their reward -

#800000They witness now the swelling chord

#800000that¹s growing stronger through the land

#800000as daily others take their stand.

#800000Where Buddha was the highest name

#800000Another Name is gaining fame!

#800000In city and in countryside

#800000the Gospel¹s going far and wide!

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#800000The thing that¹s hardest to believe

#800000is that one old man should close perceive,

#800000while yet in mortality arrayed,

#800000the Glory of the Lord displayed

#800000in such a way as I have seen!

#800000I cannot be the same!!!

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#800000O Cambodia, shall I stay away for years?

#800000Or shall I come again in tears?

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#800000O Lovely Name,

#800000always the same,

#800000Your church is in arrears!

#800000Send servants, Lord, to do a task;

#800000 size=3That¹s what I ask.

#800000- This Poem perhaps, written by #800000Bill Hawkins -