Go…and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
Matthew 28:19
Words: Clara M. Brooks, in Songs of Grace and Glory, edited by Andrew L. Byers, Otis Teasley & Henry C. Clausen (Anderson, Indiana: Gospel Trumpet Publishing, 1918), number 96.
Music: D. Otis Teasley (🔊 pdf nwc).
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A plaintive plea comes o’er the sea
From nations in distress;
From darkest night they ask for light,
Their ruined land to bless.
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A plaintive plea comes o’er the sea;
How long, O Lord, still must they wait?
Oh, hasten there with faith and prayer,
Or soon ’twill be too late.
The ripened grain on India’s plain,
Still waits for reapers true;
Hours swiftly fly while daily die
The millions in their woe.
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The strong command to every land—
Go, spread the Gospel news!
Then haste away, till truth shall sway
Its scepter o’er the seas.
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A plaintive plea, oh, can it be
Their souls are doomed and lost?
Go save them now till all shall bow
Before the Savior’s cross.
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