The Hymnal ‎#384

384. Fling out the banner! let it float

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.

Text Information

• First Line: Fling out the banner! let it float
• Author: Bishop George W. Doane (1848)
• Meter: L. M.
• Publication Date: 1950
• Topic: The Kingdom of God on Earth: Missions; Missions; Processionals

Tune Information

• Name: WALTHAM
• Composer: J. Baptiste Calkin (1872)
• Meter: L. M.
• Key: E♭ Major
• Copyright: Tune used by permission of Novello and Company, Ltd.