Hymns and Devotions for Daily Worship ‎#306

306. Fight the Good Fight

1. Fight the good fight with all your might;
Christ is your strength, and Christ is your right;
Lay hold on life, and it shall be
Your joy and crown eternally.

2. Run the straight race through God's good grace;
Lift up your eyes, and seek his face.
Life with its way before us lies;
Christ is the path, and Christ the prize.

3. Cast care aside; upon your Guide
Lean, and his mercy will provide;
Lean, and the trusting soul shall prove
Christ is its life, and Christ its love.

4. Faint not, nor fear, his arms are near;
He changes not, and you are dear;
Only believe, and own it true
That Christ is all in all to you.

Text Information

• First Line: Fight the good fight with all your might
• Title: Fight the Good Fight
• Author: John S.B. Monsell (1863)
• Meter: 8.8.8.8
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2024
• Scripture:
  1 Timothy 6:12
• Topic: Ordinary Time: Week 21
• Notes: Text by Irish-Anglican priest John S.B. Monsell, from Hymns of Love and Praise (1863), alt.

Tune Information

• Name: MENDON
• Arranger: Lowell Mason (1839)
• Meter: 8.8.8.8
• Incipit: 17151 712
• Key: A Major
• Notes: Tune MENDON, a German melody from Peter Erben’s Collection of Church Tunes (ca. 1817), arr. by American composer-educator Lowell Mason as in The Modern Psalmist (1839), revised for The Sabbath Hymn and Tune Book (1859).