5820. Rise Up, O Men of God

1. Rise up, O men of God!
Have done with lesser things.
Give heart and mind and soul and strength
To serve the King of kings.

2. Rise up, O men of God!
The kingdom tarries long.
Bring in the day of brotherhood
And end the night of wrong.

3. Rise up, O men of God!
The church for you doth wait,
Her strength unequal to her task;
Rise up and make her great!

4. Lift high the cross of Christ!
Tread where His feet have trod.
As brothers of the Son of Man,
Rise up, O men of God!

Text Information
First Line: Rise up, O men of God
Title: Rise Up, O Men of God
Author: William P. Merrill (1911)
Meter: SM
Source: First published in the Presbyterian newspaper The Continent
Copyright: Author
Notes: Alternate tune: ST.THOMAS, Aaron Williams, The new Universal Psalmodist, 1770. Merrill wrote: Nolan R. Best, then editor of The Continent, happened to say to me that there was urgent need of a brotherhood hymn...The suggestion lingered in my mind, and just about that time I came upon an article by Gerald Stanley Lee, entitled The Church of the Strong Men." I was on one of the Lake Michigan steamers going back to Chicago for a Sunday at my own church.
Tune Information
Name: FESTAL SONG
Composer: William H. Walter (1872)
Meter: SM
Incipit: 1894
Key: B♭ Major
Source: Episcopal Hymnal with tunes Old and New, by John Ireland Tucker, 1872



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