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Christian Equality

Author: H. Martineau Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 30 hymnals First Line: All men are equal in their birth Lyrics: All men are equal in their birth, Heirs of the earth and skies; All men are equal, when that earth Fails from their dying eyes. God greets the throngs who pay their vows In courts their hands have made; And hears the worshipper who bows Beneath the plantain shade. ’Tis man alone who difference sees, And speaks of high and low; And worships those, and tramples these, While the same path they go. O, let man hasten to restore To all their rights of love! In power and wealth exult no more, In wisdom lowly move. Ye great! renounce your earth-born pride; Ye low! your shame and fear; Live, as ye worship, side by side; Your brotherhood revere.

“That They May Be One.”

Author: Bulfinch Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Was it in vain that Jesus prayed Lyrics: Was it in vain that Jesus prayed For those he came to save, When darkly o’er his path was laid The shadow of the grave? Hath Jesus loved and prayed in vain? O doubting heart, be still! Yet holds the Lord his glorious reign, Despite of wrong and ill. Though nations with their battle-cries Profane the Almighty’s name, Though bigots to the offended skies Their own wild wrath proclaim,— Thousands, in every Christian land, Have never bowed the knee In worship to the idol-band Of strife and perfidy. And these are one;—though some may bend Before the Virgin’s shrine, While others’ prayers and thanks ascend, Father! alone at Thine,— Yet they are one; if through their hearts The soul of love be poured, As swells some strain of various parts, Yet all in sweet accord.

Human Brotherhood

Author: Johns Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 26 hymnals First Line: Hush the loud cannon's roar Lyrics: Hush the loud cannon’s roar, The frantic warrior’s call! Why should the earth be drenched with gore? Are we not brothers all? Want, from the wretch depart! Chains, from the captive fall! Sweet mercy, melt the oppressor’s heart,— Sufferers are brothers all. Churches and sects, strike down Each mean partition-wall! Let love each harsher feeling drown,— Christians are brothers all. Let love and truth alone Hold human hearts in thrall, That heaven its work at length may own, And men be brothers all.

Peace

Author: Gaskell Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: How long, O Lord, his brother's blood Lyrics: How long, O Lord, his brother’s blood Shall man in battle spill? How long that mandate be withstood, Which cries, “Thou shalt not kill?” How long shall glory still be found In scenes of cruel strife, Where misery walks, a giant crowned, Crushing the flowers of life? O, hush, great God! the sounds of war, And make Thy children feel That he, with Thee, is noblest far, Who toils for human weal;— And though forgotten, he alone Can be a Christian true Who would his foes as brethren own, And still their good pursue.

He Rebuked the Wind and the Sea

Author: Milman Appears in 17 hymnals First Line: Lord! thou didst arise and say Lyrics: Lord! thou didst arise and say To the troubled waters, Peace! And the tempest died away; Down they sank, the foaming seas, And a calm and heaving sleep Spread o’er all the glassy deep; All the azure lake serene Like another heaven was seen. Lord! thy gracious word repeat To the billows of the proud! Quell the tyrant’s martial heat, Quell the fierce and changing crowd! Then the earth shall find repose From oppressions, and from woes; And an imaged heaven appear In the world of darkness here.

The Hope of Man

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 29 hymnals First Line: The Past is dark with sin and shame Lyrics: The Past is dark with sin and shame, The Future dim with doubt and fear; But, Father, yet we praise Thy name, Whose guardian love is always near. For man has striven, ages long, With faltering steps to come to Thee, And in each purpose high and strong The influence of Thy grace could see. He could not breathe an earnest prayer, But Thou wast kinder than he dreamed, As age by age brought hopes more fair, And nearer still Thy kingdom seemed. But never rose within his breast A trust so calm and deep as now;— Shall not the weary find a rest? Father, Preserver, answer Thou! ’Tis dark around, ’tis dark above, But through the shadow streams the sun; We cannot doubt Thy certain love; And Man’s true aim shall yet be won!

Behold, He Cometh

Author: Anonymous Appears in 6 hymnals First Line: Hark! through the waking earth Lyrics: Hark! through the waking earth, Hark! through the echoing sky, Herald of freedom’s birth, There comes a glorious cry. The triple chains that bind Fall from the weary limb, And from the down-crushed mind, As soundeth that high hymn. Unto man’s waiting heart It saith,—“Arise, be strong! Bear thou an earnest part Against all forms of wrong. “Wouldst live in earth as lives The glorious One above? He for thy model gives Himself, and he is Love. “Love in each brother man The God who loveth him; Revere the stamp of heaven, However marred and dim. “Bid fear give place to love; Bid doubt and passion cease; Be every word of hate Forever hushed in peace.” Sound, sound through all the earth! Sound through the echoing sky! Proclaim the world’s new birth; Proclaim the Lord is nigh!

The Liberty of the Sons of God

Author: Montgomery Appears in 25 hymnals First Line: God made all his creatures free Lyrics: God made all his creatures free; Life itself is liberty; God ordained no other bands Than united hearts and hands. Sin the primal charter broke,— Sin, itself earth’s heaviest yoke; Tyranny with sin began, Man o’er brute, and man o’er man. But a better day shall be, Life again be liberty, And the wide world’s only bands Love-knit hearts and love-linked hands. So shall every slavery cease, All God’s children dwell in peace, And the new-born earth record Love, and Love alone, is Lord.

Freedom

Author: H. Ware Meter: Irregular Appears in 28 hymnals First Line: Oppression shall not always reign Lyrics: Oppression shall not always reign; There comes a brighter day, When freedom, burst from every chain, Shall have triumphant way. Then right shall over might prevail, And truth, like hero armed in mail, The hosts of tyrant wrong assail, And hold eternal sway. What voice shall bid the progress stay Of truth’s victorious car? What arm arrest the growing day, Or quench the solar star? What reckless soul, though stout and strong, Shall dare bring back the ancient wrong, Oppression’s guilty night prolong, And freedom’s morning bar?

The Reformers

Author: Whittier Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 30 hymnals First Line: O Pure Reformers! not in vain Lyrics: O pure Reformers! not in vain Your trust in human kind; The good which bloodshed could not gain, Your peaceful zeal shall find. The truths ye urge are borne abroad By every wind and tide; The voice of nature and of God Speaks out upon your side. The weapons which your hands have found Are those which Heaven hath wrought, Light, Truth, and Love,—your battle-ground, The free, broad field of Thought. O, may no selfish purpose break The beauty of your plan, Nor lie from throne or altar shake Your steady faith in man. Press on! and if we may not share The glory of your fight, We’ll ask at least, in earnest prayer, God’s blessing on the Right.