For my sake and the Gospel's, go

For my sake and the Gospel's, go

Author: Edward Henry Bickersteth (1899)
Tune: BISHOPGARTH
Published in 33 hymnals

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Representative Text

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:
Still on and on the anthems spread
of alleluia voices;
in concert with the holy dead,
the warrior Church rejoices.

3 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.

Source: Hymns of Glory, Songs of Praise #248

Author: Edward Henry Bickersteth

Bickersteth, Edward Henry, D.D., son of Edward Bickersteth, Sr. born at Islington, Jan. 1825, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A. with honours, 1847; M.A., 1850). On taking Holy Orders in 1848, he became curate of Banningham, Norfolk, and then of Christ Church, Tunbridge Wells. His preferment to the Rectory of Hinton-Martell, in 1852, was followed by that of the Vicarage of Christ Church, Hampstead, 1855. In 1885 he became Dean of Gloucester, and the same year Bishop of Exeter. Bishop Bickersteth's works, chiefly poetical, are:— (l) Poems, 1849; (2) Water from the Well-spring, 1852; (3) The Rock of Ages, 1858 ; (4) Commentary on the New Testament, 1864; (5) Yesterday, To-day, and For Ever, 1867; (6) The Spirit of Life, 1868;… Go to person page >

Tune

BISHOPGARTH

Sullivan composed the tune for the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria's reign; hence a few hymnals call it JUBILEE.

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The Cyber Hymnal #1590
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Hymns of Consecration and Faith #422

Instances

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A Missionary Hymn Book #47

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Alleluia #139

Christian Praise #d93

Church Hymnal, Fourth Edition #273

Church Hymnal, Third Edition #271

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Church Hymnary (4th ed.) #248

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Concordia #190

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Conference Hymnal #4

Conference Songs #d12

Hymns for the King's Children #d24

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Hymns of Consecration and Faith #422

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Hymns of Glory, Songs of Praise #248

Hymns of the Christian Life. Rev. ed. #d104

Hymns #d39

Hymns #46

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Montreat Hymns #268

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Northfield Hymnal No. 3 #34

Student Volunteer Hymnal #d23

Student Volunteer Hymnal #d24

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Student Volunteer Hymnal #94

The Book of Common Praise #270

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The Book of Common Praise #300

The Book of Praise #384

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The Church Missionary Hymn Book #237

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The Cyber Hymnal #1590

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The Hymnal #394

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The Hymnal of Praise #426

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The Hymnal #394

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The Irish Presbyterian Hymbook #633

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The Song Companion to the Scriptures #220

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Trinity Hymnal #377

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Victorious Life Hymns #62

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