Summoned home, the call has sounded

1 Summoned home! the call has sounded
Bidding a soldier his warfare cease;
And the song of angels resounding
Welcomes a warrior to eternal peace.
Praise the Lord! From earthly struggles
A comrade has found release.
Death has lost its sting, the grave its victory,
Conflicts and dangers are over;
See him honoured at the throne of glory,
Crowned by the hand of Jehovah.

Refrain:
Strife and sorrow over,
The lord’s true faithful soldier
Has been called to go from the ranks below
To the conquering hast above.

2 Once the sword, but now the sceptre,
Once the fight, now the rest and fame;
Broken every earthly fetter,
Now the glory for the cross and shame;
Once the loss of all for Jesus,
But now the eternal gain.
Trials and sorrows here have now their meaning found,
Mysteries their explanation;
Safe for ever in the sunlight gleaming
Of his eternal salvation.


Source: The Song Book of the Salvation Army #894

• MIDI file from The Cyber Hymnal #5683