Sunday's Hymn: The Really Oldies

From Joseph the Hymnographer in the 9th century:

Let Us Now Our Voices Raise

Let us now our voices raise,
Wake the day with gladness;
God Himself to joy and praise
Turns our human sadness;
Joy that martyrs won their crown,
Opened heav'ns bright portal,
When they laid the mortal down
For the life immortal.

Never flinched they from the flame,
From the torment never;
Vain the tyrant's sharpest aim,
Vain each fierce endeavor:
For by faith they saw the land
Decked in all its glory,
Where triumphant now they stand
With the victor's story.

Up and follow, Christian men!
Press through toil and sorrow;
Spurn the night of fear, and then,
O the glorious morrow!
Who will venture on the strife;
Who will first begin it?
Who will grasp the land of life?
Warriors, up and win it!

--Listen.

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Other hymns or worship songs posted this Sunday:

• At Calvary from Life Lines.
• Since Jesus Came Into My Heart from Ian's Messy Desk.
• Holy Hands from A Mind Awake
• In Christ Alone at gratitude & hoopla

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Tags: hymns, ancient hymns, Joseph the Hymnographer