For my sake and the Gospel's, go

Verse 1

'For my sake and the gospel's, go and tell redemption's story'; his heralds answer, 'Be it so, and thine, Lord, all the glory!' They preach his birth, his life, his cross, the love of his atonement, for whom they count the world but loss, his Easter, his enthronement.

Verse 2

Hark! hark! the trump of jubilee proclaims to every nation, from pole to pole, by land and sea, glad tidings of salvation: Still on and on the anthems spread of alleluia voices; in concert with the holy dead, the warrior Church rejoices.

Verse 3

He comes, whose advent trumpet drowns the last of time's evangels, Immanuel, crowned with many crowns, the Lord of saints and angels. O Life, Light, Love, the great I AM, Triune, who changest never, the throne of God and of the Lamb is thine, and thine for ever.