Elder Bourne requested that we sing this song at our Stake Conference Leadership Meeting yesterday afternoon, including the male and female leaders that were in attendance. He wanted a fourth verse added to the three verses that are included in the hymnbook. The lyrics by William Pierson Merrill are stirring.
Rise up, O men of God!
Have done with lesser things.
Give heart and soul and mind and strength
To serve the King of Kings.
Rise up, O men of God,
In one united throng.
Bring in the day of brotherhood
And end the night of wrong.
Rise up, O men of God!
The church for you doth wait,
Her strength unequal to her task;
Rise up, and make her great!
Rise up, O men of God!
Tread where his feet have trod.
As brothers of the Son of Man,
Rise up, O men of God!
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