Oh! why stand ye idle by?
Hear ye not now the plaint­ive cry
Of the souls about to die?
Send them the news;
Will you not an ef­fort make
Help them the chains of bond­age break
And them their ev­il ways for­sake,
Send them the news.

Refrain

Send them the news,
Send them the news,
They are need­ing help this hour,
Send them the news.
Send them the news,
Send them the news;
Can you Jesus’ call re­fuse?
Send them the news.

Oh! why not ob­ey the call
Coming to work­ers one and all,
Who will dare to be a Paul?
Send them the news;
Go ye out against the foe,
And to the help­less hea­then go,
Let them of Jesus’ Gos­pel know,
Send them the news.

Refrain

They who la­bor in the field
Till free sal­va­tion is re­vealed,
Shall re­ceive abun­dant yield,
Send them the news;
When our earth­ly race is run,
And a bright crown of glo­ry won,
Then we shall hear Him say, Well done.
Send them the news.

Refrain