Sound the Trumpet (West)

Hark! the wail of hea­then na­tions

List! the cry comes back again

With its so­lemn

sad re­proach­ing

With its sor­row­ful re­frain.

We are dy­ing fast of hun­ger

Starving for the Bread of Life!

Haste

O hast­en ere we per­ish

Send the mes­sen­gers of life!

Sound the trum­pet! Wake God’s peo­ple

Open

op­en

heart and hands!

And so sure­ly His best bless­ings

Quickly shall o’er­flow all lands.

Send the Gos­pel fast­er

swift­er

Ye who dwell in Christ­ian lands!

Care ye not that we are dy­ing

More in num­bers than the sands?

Heed ye not His words

your Mas­ter

Go ye forth to all the world?

Sound the Gos­pel fast­er

fast­er

Let its ban­ner be un­furled!

Christian! can you sit in si­lence

While this cry fills all the air

Or con­tent your soul with giv­ing

Merely what you well can spare?

For no gifts the Fa­ther crav­eth

When He asks you for His own.

Will you dole Him from your trea­sure

A poor pit­tance for a loan?