Stand By the School

Let us work for the school with our hearts and our hands

Author: A. A. Graley
Tune: [Let us work for the school with our hearts and our hands]
Published in 12 hymnals

Representative Text

1 Let us work for the school with our hearts and our hands;
For its praises are sung by the good in all lands
Let it never, no never, decline;
That are blest with the gospel divine.
Rally then, rally then, stand by the school;
Why should it languish and die?
Rally then, rally then, stand by the school;
Why should it languish and die?

2 'Tis perfum'd by the pray'rs, 'tis bedewed by the tears
They rejoiced at its hopes, and they mourned at its fears,
Of the holy, the active, the true;
When its friends were but feeble and few.
Rally then, rally then, stand by the school;
Why should it languish and die?
Rally then, rally then, stand by the school;
Why should it languish and die?

3 Now the sunshine of favor illumines its path
'Tis a source of her weal, 'tis a source of her worth,
And the church spreads above it her wing;
And a gem in the crown of her King.
Rally then, rally then, stand by the school;
Why should it languish and die?
Rally then, rally then, stand by the school;
Why should it languish and die?

Source: Christ in Song: for all religious services nearly one thousand best gospel hymns, new and old with responsive scripture readings (Rev. and Enl.) #607

Author: A. A. Graley

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Text Information

First Line: Let us work for the school with our hearts and our hands
Title: Stand By the School
Author: A. A. Graley
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Rally then, rally then, stand by the school
Copyright: Public Domain

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Instances

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A Companion to the Canadian Sunday School Harp #145

Christ in Song #d316

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Christ in Song #607

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Every Sabbath #17

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Fresh Leaves for the use of Sabbath Schools #45

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Gates of Praise #40

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Gates of Praise #40

Happy Voices #d110

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Light and Life #38

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Song Anchor #21

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Songs of the Kingdom #40

The Hymns of "Happy Voices" (without music) #d111

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