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Hymnal Number
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Keys included:
D
About this Hymn
Frank Houghton, an Anglican bishop and missionary to China, wrote this hymn in 1931. Originally it was part of a campaign to bring two hundred more missionaries to China during a horrific period in Chinese history. In light of the extraordinary work of the gospel, the hymn becomes even more compelling and is a theme song both for Overseas Missionary Fellowship and for movements of Chinese missionaries back to the rest of the world.
Lyrics
Verse 1
Facing a task unfinished that drives us to our knees, a need that, undiminished, rebukes our slothful ease. We who rejoice to know thee renew before thy throne the solemn pledge we owe thee to go and make thee known.
Chorus
We go to all the world with kingdom hope unfurled; no other name has pow'r to save, but Jesus Christ the Lord!
Verse 2
Where other lords beside thee hold their unhindered sway, where forces that defied thee defy thee still today, with none to heed their crying for life, and love, and light, unnumbered souls are dying and pass into the night.
Verse 3
We bear the torch that, flaming, fell from the hands of those who gave their lives, proclaiming that Jesus died and rose. Ours is the same commission, the same glad message ours; fired by the same ambition, to thee we yield our pow'rs.
Verse 4
O Father who sustained them, O Spirit who inspired, Savior, whose love constrained them to toil with zeal untired, from cowardice defend us, from lethargy awake! Forth on thine errands send us to labor for thy sake.
Facing a task unfinished that drives us to our knees, a need that, undiminished, rebukes our slothful ease. We who rejoice to know thee renew before thy throne the solemn pledge we owe thee to go and make thee known.
Chorus
We go to all the world with kingdom hope unfurled; no other name has pow'r to save, but Jesus Christ the Lord!
Verse 2
Where other lords beside thee hold their unhindered sway, where forces that defied thee defy thee still today, with none to heed their crying for life, and love, and light, unnumbered souls are dying and pass into the night.
Verse 3
We bear the torch that, flaming, fell from the hands of those who gave their lives, proclaiming that Jesus died and rose. Ours is the same commission, the same glad message ours; fired by the same ambition, to thee we yield our pow'rs.
Verse 4
O Father who sustained them, O Spirit who inspired, Savior, whose love constrained them to toil with zeal untired, from cowardice defend us, from lethargy awake! Forth on thine errands send us to labor for thy sake.
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Attribution & Copyright
Words: Frank Houghton; ref. Ed Cash, Fionán de Barra, Keith Getty, Kristyn Getty
Music: Samuel Sebastian Wesley, 1864; ref. Ed Cash, Fionán de Barra, Keith Getty, Kristyn Getty
© 2015 Capitol CMG Paragon / Fionán de Barra Pub Designee / Getty Music Publishing / OMF International (UK) (Capitol CMG Publishing / www.capitolcmgpublishing.com, Song Solutions / www.songsolutions.com)
Music: Samuel Sebastian Wesley, 1864; ref. Ed Cash, Fionán de Barra, Keith Getty, Kristyn Getty
© 2015 Capitol CMG Paragon / Fionán de Barra Pub Designee / Getty Music Publishing / OMF International (UK) (Capitol CMG Publishing / www.capitolcmgpublishing.com, Song Solutions / www.songsolutions.com)