Christians, Up! the Day Is Breaking
Authors: E.S. Porter • Composers: H.F. Hemy • Meter: 8.7.8.7. double • Language: English • Formats: lyrics, png • Copyright: Free PNG, Public Domain • Years: 1846 • Special Collections: Missions
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1. Christians, up! the day is breaking,
Gird your ready armor on;
Slumb’ring hosts around are waking,
Rouse ye! in the Lord be strong!
While ye sleep or idly linger,
Thousands sink, with none to save;
Hasten! Time’s unerring finger
Points to many an open grave.
2. Hark! unnumbered voices crying,
“Save us, or we droop and die!”
Succor bear the faint and dying,
On the wings of mercy fly:
Lead them to the crystal fountain
Gushing with the streams of life;
Guide them to the shelt’ring mountain,
For the gale with death is rife.
3. See the blest millennial dawning!
Bright the beams of Bethlehem’s star;
Eastern lands, behold the morning;
Lo! it glimmers from afar:
O’er the mountaintop ascending,
Soon the scattered light shall rise,
Till, in radiant glory blending,
Heav’n's high noon shall greet our eyes.