Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: Hush the loud cannon's roar
Topic: The New Life/Sympathies and Activities
Writer: <no first name given> Johns
Composer:
Meter: SM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 965
Page Number: 573, 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 brother's 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 may own,
And men be brothers all.