2 Love of God, all love embracing In its wide extended arms; All our doubts and fears displacing, Saves our souls from death’s alarms: O what sweetness Dwells within its blissful charms!
3 Love of God, all love possessing! Filling all our souls with joy; Pouring on each heart a blessing, Which no time can e’er destroy: Now may praises All our hearts and tongues employ.
4 Love of God, all love extending Far o’er sea and ocean strands; Thou art on the breezes sending Joyful news to distant lands: May thy triumphs Bind the world within thy bands.
1275 8s & 7s. Onward!
Onward, onward, men of heaven! Bear the gospel banner high; Rest not till its light is given— Star of every pagan sky; Send it where the pilgrim stranger Faints beneath the torrid ray; Bid the hearty forest ranger Hail it ere he fades away.
2 Where the Arctic ocean thunders, Where the tropics fiercely glow, Broadly spread its page of wonders, Brightly bid its radiance flow; India marks its luster stealing; Shivering Greenland loves its rays, Afric, ’mid her deserts kneeling, Lifts the untaught strain of praise.
3 Rude in speech, or wild in feature, Dark in spirit, though they be, Show that light to every creature— Prince or vassal, bond or free: Lo! they haste to every nation; Host on host the ranks supply: Onward! Christ is your salvation, And your death is victory.
1276 8s & 7s. Shout the tidings of salvation.
Shout the tidings of salvation, To the agéd and the young; Till the precious invitation Waken every heart and tongue. CHORUS. Send the sound The earth around, From the rising to the setting of the sun, Till each gathering crowd Shall proclaim aloud, The glorious work is done.
2 Shout the tidings of salvation, O’er the prairies on the west; Till each gathering congregation, With the gospel sound is blest.
3 Shout the tidings of salvation, Mingling with the ocean’s roar; Till the ships of every nation, Bear the news from shore to shore.
4 Shout the tidings of salvation O’er the islands of the sea; Till, in humble adoration, All to Christ shall bow the knee.
1277 8s & 7s. Quit you like men; be strong. 1 Cor. 16:13.
We are living, we are dwelling In a grand and awful time, In an age on ages telling; To be living is sublime.
2 Hark! the onset! will ye fold your Faith-clad arms in lazy lock? Up! O, up! thou drowsy soldier; Worlds are charging to the shock.
3 Worlds are charging, heaven beholding; Thou hast but an hour to fight; Now, the blazoned cross unfolding, On! right onward for the right.
4 On! let all the soul within you For the truth’s sake go abroad: Strike! let every nerve and sinew Tell on ages—tell for God.
1278 P. M. God speed the right!
Now to heaven our prayer ascending, God speed the right! In a noble cause extending, God speed the right! Be their zeal in heaven recorded, With success on earth rewarded, God speed the right!
2 Be that prayer again repeated, God speed the right! Ne’er despairing, though defeated, God speed the right! Like the good and great in story, If they fail, they fail with glory; God speed the right!
3 Patient, firm, and persevering, God speed the right! Ne’er the event or danger fearing, God speed the right! Pains, nor toils, nor trials heeding, And in heaven’s own time succeeding, God speed the right!
4 Still their onward course pursuing, God speed the right! Every foe at length subduing, God speed the right! Truth thy cause, whate’er delay it, There’s no power on earth can stay it, God speed the right!
1279 C. M. Blessed is the people that know, etc. Psalm 89:15.
How sweet the gospel trumpet sounds! Its notes are grace and love; Its echo through the world resounds, From Jesus’ throne above. CHORUS. It is the sound, the joyful sound, Of mercy rich and free; Pardon it offers, peace proclaims, Sinner! it speaks to thee.
2 It tells the weary soul of rest, The poor of heavenly wealth, Of joy to heal the mourning breast; It brings the sin-sick health.
3 Its words announce a heavenly feast, Of water, milk, and wine, And manna in the wilderness, Provisions all divine.
4 It speaks of boundless grace, by which The vilest are forgiven; To Christians it proclaims a rich Inheritance in heaven.
5 To men of high and low degree, Its message is addressed; The Jew and Gentile, bond and free, Are with its blessings blessed.
1280 8s, 7s & 4s. All the kindreds of the nations. Psalm 22:27.
O’er the gloomy hills of darkness, Look, my soul, be still and gaze; All the promises do travail With a glorious day of grace: Blessed jubilee, Let thy glorious morning dawn.