FOR MY SAKE AND THE GOSPELS

‘For My sake and the gospel's, go

and tell redemption's story’;

His heralds answer, ‘Be it so,

and Thine, Lord, all the glory!’

They preach His birth, His life, His Cross,

the love of His atonement,

for whom they count the world but loss,

His Easter, His enthronement.




Hark, hark, the trump of jubilee

proclaims to every nation,

from pole to pole, by land and sea,

glad tidings of salvation.

As nearer draws the day of doom,

while still the battle rages,

the heavenly day-spring, through the gloom,

breaks on the night of ages.




Still on and on the anthems spread

of hallelujah voices,

in concert with the holy dead

the warrior-church rejoices;

their snow-white robes are washed in blood,

their golden harps are ringing;

earth and the paradise of God

one triumph-song are singing.




He comes, whose advent trumpet drowns

the last of time's evangels;

Emmanuel crowned with many crowns,

the Lord of saints and angels:

O Life, Light, Love, the great I AM,

triune, who changest never;

the throne of God and of the Lamb

is Thine, and Thine for ever!