1 Lo, a voice is calling out across the waters deep and wide,
Who will go, who will go?
Tell the heathen of salvation,
Of the one who for them died;
Who will go, who will go?
Refrain:
Who will go, who will go?
With the gospel to the distant heathen land;
Who will go, who will go?
With the message of salvation grand?
2 O how long they have been groping in the gloom of sins dread night;
Who will go, who will go?
Hasten tell them of their error,
Let them have the gospel light;
Who will go, who will go? [Refrain]
3 Lo, the Master calls for workers to go forth at His command,
Who will go, who will go?
Do not tarry, do not linger,
Do not longer idle stand;
Who will go, who will go? [Refrain]
4 Consecrate your ev’ry talent, give the Lord what you possess,
Who will go, who will go?
They shall shine as stars forever
Who turns souls to righteousness;
Who will go, who will go? [Refrain]
Source: The King of Glory #56
Rv Haldor Lillenas DMus Norway/USA 1885-1959. Born at Stord, near Bergen, Norway, his father sold their 15 acre farm in Norway and emigrated to the U.S., buying a farm in Colton, SD. After he built a sod house, the family (wife and three chldren) also came to SD in 1887. They moved to Astoria, Oregon in 1889, where Lillenas learned English and began writing song lyrics at an early age. In 1900 the family moved again to Roseville, MN, where he worked as a farm laborer and began attending a Lutheran high school at Hawick, MN. He sold a few songs at age 19. At age 21 he began writing more songs, encouraged by some earlier ones becoming popular (“He set me free” was one). His mother died in 1906 and his father returned to ND, but Li… Go to person page >
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