Unfurl the Christian Standard

Unfurl the Christ­ian stan­dard!

Lift it man­ful­ly on high

And ral­ly where its shin­ing folds

Wave out against the sky!

Away with weak half-heart­ed­ness

With faith­less­ness and fear!

Unfurl the Christ­ian stan­dard

And fol­low with a cheer!

In God’s own name we set it up

This ban­ner brave and bright

Uplifted for the cause of Christ

The cause of truth and right;

The cause that none can ov­er­throw

The cause that must pre­vail

Because the pr­omise of the Lord

Can nev­er

nev­er fail!

Now

who is on the Lord’s side

who?

Come

throng His bat­tle­field.

Be strong

and show that ye are men!

Come forth with sword and shield!

What peace

while trai­tor­ous ev­il

Stalks in false ar­ray of light?

What peace

while ene­mies of Christ

Are ga­ther­ing for the fight?

Unfurl the Christ­ian stan­dard

With firm and fear­less hands!

For no pale flag of com­pr­omise

With Er­ror’s le­gion bands

And no faint heart­ed flag of truce

With Mis­chief and with Wrong

Should lead the sol­diers of the Cross

The faith­ful and the strong.

Unfurl the Christ­ian stan­dard

And fol­low through the strife

The no­ble ar­my who have won

The mar­tyr’s crown of life;

Our an­ces­tors could die for truth

Could brave the dead­ly glow

And shall we let the stan­dard fall

And yield it to the foe?

But if ye dare not hold it fast

Yours on­ly is the loss

For it shall be vic­tor­ious

This stan­dard of the Cross!

It shall not suf­fer

though ye rest

Beneath your shel­ter­ing trees

And cast away the vic­tor’s crown

For love of ti­mid ease.

The Lord of Hosts

in whom alone

Our weak­ness shall be strong

Shall lead us on to con­quest

With a migh­ty bat­tle song;

And soon the war­fare shall be past

The glo­ri­ous tri­umph won

The kingd­oms of the world shall be

The kingd­oms of His Son!