Fling Out the Banner

Fling out the ban­ner! let it float

Skyward and sea­ward

high and wide;

The sun that lights its shin­ing folds

The cross

on which the Sav­ior died.

Fling out the ban­ner! hea­then lands

Shall see from far the glo­ri­ous sight

And na­tions crowd­ing to be born

Baptize their spir­its in its light.

Fling out the ban­ner! an­gels bend

In anx­ious silence o’er the sight

And vain­ly seek to com­pre­hend

The won­der of the love di­vine.

Fling out the ban­ner! sin sick souls

That sink and per­ish in the strife

Shall touch in faith its ra­di­ant hem

And spring im­mor­tal in­to life.

Fling out the ban­ner! let it float

Skyward and sea­ward

high and wide

Our glo­ry

on­ly in the cross;

Our on­ly hope

the Cru­ci­fied!

Fling out the ban­ner! wide and high

Seaward and sky­ward

let it shine;

Nor skill

nor might

nor mer­it ours;

We con­quer on­ly in that sign.