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Christ Shall Have Dominion

Meter: 6.5.6.5 D with refrain Appears in 23 hymnals Topics: Kingdom of God on Earth, The Missions Lyrics: 1 Christ shall have dominion Over land and sea; Earth's remotest regions Shall His empire be; They that wilds inhabit Shall their worship bring, Kings shall render tribute, Nations serve our King. Christ shall have dominion Over land and sea, Earth's remotest regions Shall His empire be. 2 When the needy seek Him He will mercy show; Yea, the weak and helpless Shall His pity know; He will surely save them From oppression's might, For their lives are precious In His holy sight. Christ shall have dominion Over land and sea, Earth's remotest regions Shall His empire be. 3 Ever and forever Shall His name endure, Long as suns continue It shall stand secure; And in Him forever All men shall be blest, And all nations hail Him King of Kings confessed. Christ shall have dominion Over land and sea, Earth's remotest regions Shall His empire be. 4 Unto God Almighty Joyful Zion sings; He alone is glorious, Doing wondrous things. Evermore, ye people, Bless His glorious name; His eternal glory Through the earth proclaim. Christ shall have dominion Over land and sea, Earth's remotest regions Shall His empire be. Amen. Scripture: Psalm 72 Used With Tune: ARMAGEDDON Text Sources: The Psalter, 1912

The voice of God is calling

Author: John Haynes Holmes Appears in 70 hymnals Topics: Kingdom of God on earth

From age to age they gather

Author: Frederick L. Hosmer Appears in 34 hymnals Topics: Kingdom of God on earth

Christ for the World We Sing

Author: Samuel Wolcott Meter: 6.6.4.6.6.6.4 Appears in 429 hymnals Topics: Kingdom of God on Earth, The World Friendship and Peace Lyrics: 1 Christ for the world we sing; The world to Christ we bring With loving zeal; The poor and them that mourn, The faint and overborne, Sin-sick and sorrow-worn, Whom Christ doth heal. 2 Christ for the world we sing; The world to Christ we bring With fervent prayer; The wayward and the lost, By restless passions tossed, Redeemed at countless cost From dark despair. 3 Christ for the world we sing; The world to Christ we bring With one accord; With us the work to share, With us reproach to dare, With us the cross to bear, For Christ our Lord. 4 Christ for the world we sing; The world to Christ we bring With joyful song; The newborn souls whose days, Reclaimed from error's ways, Inspired with hope and praise, To Christ belong. Amen. Scripture: 1 John 2:2 Used With Tune: ITALIAN HYMN

O beautiful for spacious skies

Author: Katherine Lee Bates, 1859-1929 Appears in 536 hymnals Topics: The Kingdom of God on Earth The Nation, Peace Scripture: Psalm 33:6-9 Used With Tune: MATERNA

O God of love, O King of peace

Author: Rev. Henry W. Baker (1821-1877) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 251 hymnals Topics: The Kingdom of God on Earth World Friendship and Peace Lyrics: 1 O God of love, O King of peace, Make wars throughout the world to cease; The wrath of sinful man restrain: Give peace, O God, give peace again! 2 Remember, Lord, Thy works of old, The wonders that our fathers told; Remember not our sin's dark stain: Give peace, O God, give peace again! 3 Whom shall we trust but Thee, O Lord? Where rest but on Thy faithful word? None ever called on Thee in vain: Give peace, O God, give peace again! 4 Where saints and angels dwell above, All hearts are knit in holy love; O bind us in that heavenly chain: Give peace, O God, give peace again! Amen. Used With Tune: QUEBEC

Thy Kingdom Come, O Lord

Author: Frederick Lucian Hosmer Meter: 6.6.6.6 Appears in 73 hymnals Topics: Kingdom of God on Earth, The World Friendship and Peace Lyrics: 1 Thy Kingdom come, O Lord, Wide-circling as the sun; Fulfill of old Thy word And make the nations one: 2 One in the bond of peace, The service glad and free Of truth and righteousness, Of love and equity. 3 Speed, speed the longed-for time Foretold by raptured seers— The prophecy sublime, The hope of all the years— 4 Till rise at last, to span Its firm foundations broad, The commonwealth of man, The city of our God. Amen. Scripture: Psalm 72:7-8 Used With Tune: ST. CECELIA

These Things Shall Be: A Loftier Race

Author: J. Addington Symonds, 1840-1893 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 141 hymnals Topics: Kingdom of God on Earth Brotherhood Lyrics: 1 These things shall be: a loftier race Than e'er the world hath known shall rise With flame of freedom in their souls, And light of knowledge in their eyes. 2 They shall be gentle, brave, and strong, To spill no drop of blood, but dare All that may plant man's lordship firm On earth, and fire, and sea, and air. 3 Nation with nation, land with land, Inarmed shall live as comrades free; In every heart and brain shall throb The pulse of one fraternity. 4 New arts shall bloom of loftier mould, And mightier music thrill the skies, And every life shall be a song, When all the earth is paradise. Scripture: Psalm 46:9 Used With Tune: MOZART

Fling out the banner! let it float

Author: Bishop George W. Doane Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 506 hymnals Topics: The Kingdom of God on Earth Missions Lyrics: 1 Fling out the banner! let it float Skyward and seaward, high and wide; The sun that lights its shining folds, The Cross on which the Saviour died. 2 Fling out the banner! angels bend In anxious silence o'er the sign, And vainly seek to comprehend The wonder of the Love divine. 3 Fling out the banner! distant lands Shall see from far the glorious sight, And nations, crowding to be born, Baptize their spirits in its light. 4 Fling out the banner! sin-sick souls That sink and perish in the strife, Shall touch in faith its radiant hem And spring immortal into life. 5 Fling out the banner! let it float Skyward and seaward, high and wide, Our glory, only in the cross; Our only hope, the Crucified! 6 Fling out the banner! wide and high, Seaward and skyward, let it shine: Nor skill, nor might, nor merit ours; We conquer only in that sign. Amen. Used With Tune: WALTHAM

Ye Christian Heralds, Go Proclaim

Author: Bourne Hall Draper Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 479 hymnals Topics: Kingdom of God on Earth, The Missions Lyrics: 1 Ye Christian heralds, go proclaim Salvation through Emmanuel's name; To distant climes the tidings bear, And plant the Rose of Sharon there. 2 God shield you with a wall of fire, With holy zeal your hearts inspire, Bid raging winds their fury cease, And calm the tempests into peace. 3 And when our labors all are o'er, Then we shall meet to part no more; Meet with the ransomed throng to fall, And crown our Saviour Lord of all. Amen. Scripture: Matthew 10:32 Used With Tune: MISSIONARY CHANT