Our Country’s Voice Is Pleading Lyrics Maria F. Anderson, 1848
3 verses, meter 7, 6, 8 l, public domain, free to print and project.
The words
Verse 1. Our country’s voice is pleading,
Ye men of God, arise!
His providence is leading,
The land before you lies;
Day-gleams are o’er it brightening,
And promise clothes the soil;
Wide fields, for harvest whitening,
Invite the reaper’s toil.
Verse 2. Go where the waves are breaking
On California’s shore,
Christ’s precious Gospel taking,
More rich than golden ore;
On Alleghany’s mountains,
Through all the Western vale,
Beside Missouri’s fountains,
Rehearse the wondrous tale.
Verse 3. His love of Christ unfolding,
Speed on from east to west,
Till all, His Cross beholding,
In Him are fully blessed.
Great Author of salvation,
Haste, haste the glorious day,
When we, a ransomed nation,
Thy scepter shall obey.
Words copied from Evangelical Lutheran Hymn-Book (Abridged Edition) (1927). They were published in 1848, so they are in the public domain in the United States, and your church may print them, show them and sing them without a license.
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