Scripture Verse

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Hosea 4:6

Introduction

Words & Mu­sic: San­ford M. Brown, The Mis­sion­ary Tri­umph (Cin­cin­na­ti, Ohio: John Church, 1889), num­ber 101 (🔊 pdf nwc).

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

Lyrics

Brother, hear the cry from the dark do­main,
Where they have no know­ledge of the Sav­ior’s name;
See the dark­en­ing night, hear the plaint­ive cry,
Send us now the Gos­pel, or our souls must die.

Refrain

Brother, they are cry­ing, cry­ing un­to you,
Save us from eter­nal shame;
Trembling on the brink of the world of woe,
Dying for the know­ledge of the Sav­ior’s name.

Dying all un­con­scious of the dead­ly ill;
Frenzied by the fe­ver of the fa­tal chill;
Blinded by de­cep­tion of the world’s dread foe;
Standing on the mar­gin of eter­nal woe.

Refrain

Sadly they are cry­ing, tho’ no voice we hear;
Sinking to per­di­tion, yet they feel no fear;
Silently they’re plead­ing by their sin and shame,
Crying for the know­ledge of the Sav­ior’s name.

Refrain

Christian, you have feast­ed on the Sav­ior’s love,
Tasted of the plea­sures of the world above;
Will you with in­dif­fer­ence hear your bro­ther’s cry,
Send us now the Gos­pel, or our souls must die?

Refrain