Come and let us sweetly join,

Christ to praise in hymns divine;

Give we all with one accord

Glory to our common Lord.

Hands, and hearts and voices raise;

Sing as in the ancient days

Antedates the joy above

Celebrate the feast of love.

Strive we, in affection strive;

Let the purer flame revive,

Such as in the martyrs glowed,

Dying champions for their God.

We, like them, may live and love;

Called we are their joys to prove,

Saved with them from future wrath,

Partners of like precious faith.

Sing we then in Jesus’ Name,

Now as yesterday the same;

One in every time and place,

Full for all of truth and grace.

We for Christ, our Master, stand,

Lights in a benighted land:

We our dying Lord confess;

We are Jesus’ witnesses.

Witnesses that Christ hath died,

We with Him are crucified;

Christ hath burst the bands of death,

We His quick’ning Spirit breathe.

Christ is now gone up on high,

Where to Him our wishes fly;

Sits at God’s right hand above;

There with Him we reign in love!