’For my sake and the gospel’s, go

1.

’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.

2.

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 dayspring through the gloom

Breaks on the night of ages

3.

Still on and on the anthems spread

Of alleluia 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

4.

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