Thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 15:57
Words: Samuel W. Gandy, in the Plymouth Brethren’s Hymns for the Poor of the Flock, 1838.
Music: Boylston Lowell Mason, The Choir, or Union Collection of Church Music 1832 (🔊 pdf nwc).
Alternate Tune:
If you know where to get a good picture of Gandy (head & shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels),
His be the Victor’s name,
Who fought the fight alone;
Triumphant saints no honor claim,
His conquest was their own.
By weakness and defeat,
He won a glorious crown,
Trod all our foes beneath His feet,
By being trodden down.
He Satan’s power laid low;
Made sin, He sin o’erthrew,
Bowed to the grave, destroyed it so,
And death, by dying, slew.
Bless, bless the Conqueror slain,
Slain in His victory;
Who lived, who died, who lives again—
For thee, His Church, for thee!