Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal
Date: 1871
Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee
Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall
First Line: Hush the loud cannon's roar
Topic: The New Life/Temptations and Conflicts
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer: L Mason
Meter: SM
Tune: Laban
Hymn Number: 651
Page Number: 235, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsHush the loud cannon's roar,
The frantic warrior's call,
Why should the earth be drenched with gore?
Are we not brothers all?
Want, from the wretch depart;
Chains, from the captive fall;
Sweet mercy, melt the oppressor's heart:
Sufferers are brothers all.
Churches and sects, strike down
Each mean partition wall;
Let love each harsher feeling drown:
Christians are brothers all.
Let love and truth alone
Hold human hearts in thrall,
That heaven its work at length my own,
And men be brothers all.