Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised
Date: 1882
Compiler: A I Hobbs et al
Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co
First Line: Hush the loud cannon's roar
Topic: Love/Brotherly
Writer: Henry Johns
Composer: Daniel Read
Meter: SM
Tune: Lisbon
Hymn Number: 91
Page Number: 039, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsHUSH the loud cannon's roar,
The frantic warrior's call;
Why should the earth be drench'd with gore?
Are we not brothers all?
Want, from the wretch depart;
Chains, from the captive fall;
Sweet mercy, melt th' oppressor's heart;
Suff'rers 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 heav'n its work at length may own,
And men be brothers all.