Scripture Verse

On your feet! He’s calling you. Mark 10:49

Introduction

Words: O. L. Mark­ham, in His Wor­thy Praise, by Ed­mund Lo­renz & Ira B. Wil­son (Day­ton, Ohio: Lo­renz Pub­lish­ing, 1915), num­ber 127.

Music: Ed­mund S. Lo­renz (🔊 pdf nwc). Some hym­nals show the com­pos­er as John D. Cres­well, one of Lo­renz’ pseu­do­nyms.

If you know where to get a good pho­to of Mark­ham (head & shoul­ders, at least 200×300 pix­els),

portrait
Edmund S. Lorenz (1854–1942)

Lyrics

We’ve heard the call to ral­ly,
And we hast­en to ob­ey;
When Je­sus needs our ser­vice,
We will heed with­out de­lay;
Redeemed with His own pre­cious blood
On rug­ged Cal­va­ry,
We yield our all to Him.

Refrain

Rally! is our watchword, Rally is our song!
All our time and all our pow­er to Christ be­long!
Rally, then with glad­ness, ral­ly with a cheer,
We shall win the bat­tle, for our cap­tain’s near!

We’ll ga­ther ’round His ban­ner,
Glorious em­blem of the right,
The sym­bol of His truth and love,
Agleam with ho­ly light;
We’ll chal­lenge ev­ery ev­il,
We will bat­tle in His might,
And vic­to­ry shall be ours.

Refrain

We’ll help to save the fall­en
From the snares of doubt and sin,
We’ll teach the youth to spurn the wrong
And choose the pure and clean;
We’ll go in Je­sus’ pre­cious name
And bring the world to Him,
And crown Him Lord for aye.

Refrain