Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal
Date: 1871
Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee
Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall
First Line: Onward onward men of heaven
Topic: Christ/His Nativity
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer: J Powell
Meter: 8s and 7s double
Tune: Manor
Hymn Number: 91
Page Number: 036, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsOnward, onward, men of heaven!
Bear the gospel banner high;
Rest not till its light is given--
Star of every pagan sky;
Send it where the pilgrim stranger
Faints beneath the torrid ray;
Bid the hearty forest ranger
Haoil it ere he fades away.
Where the Arctic ocean thunders,
Where the tropics fiercely glow,
Broadly spread its page of wonders,
Brightly bid its radiance flow;
India marks its luster stealing;
Shivering Greenland loves its rays;
Afric, 'mid her deserts kneeling,
Lifts the untaught strain of praise.