Waiting for Christ

Arise, ye mourning saints, arise

No. 799
Metre C. M.
Words Thomas Kelly.
Singing key F major
5 stanzas

Sung to WOODLAND (hymn 354)

Words

Arise, ye mourning saints, arise!The Lord our Leader is;The foe before his banner flies,And victory is his.

We follow thee, our Guard and Guide,Our Saviour, and our King;We follow thee, through grace suppliedFrom heaven's eternal spring.

We soon shall see the promised dayWhen all our toils shall cease;When we shall cast our arms away,And dwell in endless peace.

This blessed hope supports us here;It makes our burdens light;'T will serve our drooping hearts to cheer,Till faith shall end in sight:

Till, of the glorious prize possessed,We hear of war no more;And ever with our Leader rest,On yonder peaceful shore.

About this hymn

As printed Words only. As printed: hymn number «799» (large) in the left column of p. 262, under «Anon.» of hymn 798, with the reference line «354, 369, 446.» in italic figures beside it (sing to the tunes of hymns 354 WOODLAND, 369 MELODY or 446 DENTON, all C. M.; no meter is printed — the four lines 8.6.8.6 are C. M., like the referenced tunes). Stanzas 1–3 stand at the foot of the left column; stanzas 4–5 continue at the top of the right column, followed by «Thomas Kelly.» in italics, right-aligned. Stanzas numbered «1»–«5» without periods (written «1.»–«5.» here, as in the other deliveries of this book); lines 2 and 4 indented. The first word «ARISE» is set in capitals and small capitals; written «Arise». The print sets a thin space before «!», «;» and «:» («arise !», «is ;», «King ;», «cease ;», «here ;», «light ;», «sight :», «more ;»); it is closed up here. «'T will» (stanza 4) is printed with the apostrophe before the T and a space before «will», and is kept so. Apostrophes are written straight. Spelling («Saviour», «possessed»), punctuation and capitals («Guard», «Guide», «Leader») are the print's.