And Shall We Now Turn Back?

And shall we now turn back

To Sa­tan’s con­quest yield

The ho­ly fel­low­ship for­sake

And quit the well-fought field?

No more with ac­cord sweet

Our Sav­ior’s love adore

And see each oth­er’s face

and meet

In Je­sus’ name no more!

We who have count­ed loss

For Christ our great­est gain

Shall we re­fuse the crown and cross

And suf­fer all in vain?

Caught in the tempt­er’s snare

Shall we like De­mas stop

Th’assembling of our­selves for­bear

And give our breth­ren up?

No

nev­er will we part

Or place to Sa­tan give

But cleave to God with stead­fast heart

And to each oth­er cleave.

Strengthened by His com­mand

We for the faith con­tend

In Je­sus’ name to­ge­ther stand

And suf­fer to the end.

In vain the sub­tle foe

Allures with prof­fered ease

We now his false de­vic­es know

And scorn his hell­ish peace:

Thy faith­ful serv­ants

Lord

We nev­er will re­sign

Or buy the world’s good will and word

By for­feit­ure of Thine.

No

in Thy strength we say

To sin­ners and their god

Ye can­not tear our shield away

Who trust in Je­sus’ blood

Who to each oth­er cleave

Your ma­lice we de­fy;

We will in Christ to­ge­ther live

We will to­ge­ther die.