For my sake and the
Gospel's go |
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Tune: |
Bishopgarth |
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Metre: |
8787 D |
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‘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.
Still
on and on the anthems spread,
Of
alleluia voices;
In
concert with the holy dead,
The
warrior
Church
rejoices.
He
comes whose advent-trumpet drowns
The
last of time’s evangels,
Immanuel,
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.
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