5 All we can do is nothing worth,
Unless God blesses the deed;
Vainly we hope for the harvest-tide,
Till God gives life to the seed;
Yet nearer and nearer draws the time,
The time that shall surely be,

When the earth shall be filled with the glory of God

As the waters cover the sea.

Arthur C. Ainger, 1894

484

OON may the last glad song arise

That song of triumph which records
That all the earth is now the Lord's.

L.M.

skies,

2 Let thrones and powers and kingdoms be Obedient, mighty God, to thee;

And over land and stream and main
Wave thou the scepter of thy reign.

30 that the anthem now might swell,
And host to host the triumph tell,
That not one rebel heart remains,
But over all the Saviour reigns! Amen.

485

Ascribed to Mrs. Vokes, 1816

7.5.7.5.7.7

LET the song go round the earth

Jesus is

Sound his praises, tell his worth,
Be his Name adored;

Every clime and every tongue
Join the grand, the glorious song!

2 Let the song go round the earth!
From the eastern sea,

Where the daylight has its birth,
Glad, and bright, and free!
China's millions join the strains,
Waft them on to India's plains.

3 Let the song go round the earth!
Lands where Islam's sway

Darkly broods o'er home and hearth,
Cast their bonds away!

Let his praise from Afric's shore
Rise and swell her wide lands o'er.

4 Let the song go round the earth!
Where the summer smiles;

Let the notes of holy mirth
Break from distant isles!
Inland forests, dark and dim,
Icebound coasts give back the hymn.

5 Let the song go round the earth,
Jesus Christ is King!
With the story of his worth
Let the whole world ring!

Him creation all adore
Evermore and evermore.

Sarah G. Stock, 1898

486

C

6.6.4.6.6.6.4

HRIST for the world we sing!
The world to Christ we bring
With loving zeal;

The poor, and them that mourn,
The faint and overborne,
Sin-sick and sorrow-worn,
Whom Christ doth heal.

2 Christ for the world we sing!
The world to Christ we bring,
With fervent prayer;
The wayward and the lost,
By restless passions tossed,
Redeemed at countless cost,
From dark despair.

3 Christ for the world we sing!
The world to Christ we bring,
With one accord;

With us the work to share,
With us reproach to dare,
With us the cross to bear,
For Christ our Lord.

4 Christ for the world we sing!
The world to Christ we bring,
With joyful song;

The newborn souls, whose days,
Reclaimed from error's ways,
Inspired with hope and praise,
To Christ belong.

487

Samuel Wolcott, 1869

L.M.

A

RM of the Lord, awake! awake!
Put on thy strength! the nations
shake!

And let the world adoring see
Triumphs of mercy wrought by thee.

2 Say to the heathen from thy throne,
I am Jehovah, God alone:

Thy voice their idols shall confound,
And cast their altars to the ground.

3 Let Sion's time of favour come;
O bring the tribes of Israel home;
And let our wondering eyes behold
Gentiles and Jews in Jesus' fold.

4 Almighty God, thy grace proclaim
In every clime, of every name;
Let adverse powers before thee fall,
And crown the Saviour Lord of all. Amen.

William Shrubsole, 1795

Also the following

54 Hark! the glad sound!

55 Come, thou long-expected Jesus 66 O come, O come, Emmanuel 85 The Son of God goes forth to war 100 Light of those whose dreary dwelling 104 Thou, whose almighty word

105 Thy kingdom come, O God

106 Watchman, tell us of the night
107 O North, with all thy vales of green
190 Crown him with many crowns

193 Alleluia! sing to Jesus

238 Thy life was given for me

282 On Jordan's bank

468 Glorious things of thee are spoken 494 Where cross the crowded ways of life 530 Onward, Christian soldiers

488

Brotherhood and Service

A

M I a soldier of the cross,

A follower of the Lamb?
And shall I fear to own his cause,
Or blush to speak his Name?

C.M.

2 Must I be carried to the skies

On flowery beds of ease,

While others fought to win the prize,
And sailed through bloody seas?

3 Are there no foes for me to face?
Must I not stem the flood?

Is this vile world a friend to grace,
To help me on to God?

4 Sure I must fight if I would reign;
Increase my courage, Lord;

I'll bear the cross, endure the pain,
Supported by thy word.

5 Thy saints, in all this glorious war,
Shall conquer, though they die;
They view the triumph from afar,
And seize it with their eye.

6 When that illustrious day shall rise,
And all thy armies shine

In robes of victory through the skies,
The glory shall be thine.

Amen.

Isaac Watts, 1784

489

BLE

OLEST be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Jesus' love:

The fellowship of Christian minds
Is like to that above.

2 Before our Father's throne

We pour united prayers;

S.M.

Our fears, our hopes, our aims are one;
Our comforts and our cares.