Author Unknown
WHO will go to rear the standard
Of the cross in heathen lands,
Where the people sit in darkness,
Bound by superstition’s bands?
Who will leave their friends and country,
Bid adieu to earthly bliss,
Yield their lives a willing offering
To so great a work as this?
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Who will go to Afric’s center,
Tell the Ethiop there’s a God,
Point him to the crimson fountain
Of a Savior’s cleansing blood?
Who will climb the Rocky Mountains,
Through the western forests stray,
Where thick gloom and pagan darkness
Long have held unrivaled sway?
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Oh! for Paul’s denying spirit,
For his missionary zeal;
And the perfect love of Jesus,
Every Christian heart to fill:
Then the earth would soon be covered
With the knowledge of the Lord,
And the far-off isles of ocean
Soon would all receive His word.