One is your master, even Christ, and all you are brethren.
Matthew 23:8
Words: John A. Warner, in Sixty Supplemental Hymns (Uckfield, England: J. Brooker & Sons, 1900).
Music: Ave Virgo Virginum Johann Roh, Ein Gesangbuch der Brüder im Behemen und Merherrn (Nuremberg, Germany: 1544) (🔊 pdf nwc).
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If you know where to get a good photo of Warner (head & shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels),
Brothers, joining hand to hand,
In one bond united,
Pressing onward to that land
Where all wrongs are righted:
Let your words and actions be
Worthy your vocation;
Chosen of the Lord, and free,
Heirs of Christ’s salvation.
Christ, the Way, the Truth, the Life,
Who hath gone before you
Through the turmoil and the strife,
Holds His banner o’er you;
All who see the sacred sign
Press towards Heav’ns portal,
Fired by hope that is divine,
Love that is immortal.
They who follow fear no foe,
Care not who assail them;
Where the Master leads, they go,
He will never fail them;
Courage, brothers! we are one,
In the love that sought us;
Soon the warfare shall be done,
Through the grace He brought us.