The Cyber Hymnal 5820. Rise up, O men of God

The Cyber Hymnal‎#5820

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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