Bible Songs — Missionary Songs

Lift Him Up

Lift him up, 't is he that bids you,

No. 1252
Tune LIFT HIM UP.
Words May E. Warren.
Music D. S. Hakes.
Key F major
Singing key E♭ major
Time 3/4
4 stanzas

Words

Lift him up, 't is he that bids you,Let the dying look and live;To all weary, thirsting sinners,Living waters will he give;And though once so meek and lowly,Yet the Prince of heav'n was he;And the blind, who grope in darkness,Through the blood of Christ shall see.

Chorus.

Lift him up, the risen Saviour,High amid the waiting throng;Lift him up, 't is he that speaketh,Now he bids you flee from wrong.

Lift him up, this precious Saviour,Let the multitude behold;They with willing hearts shall seek him,He will draw them to his fold;They shall gather from the wayside,Hast'ning on with joyous feet,They shall bear the cross of Jesus,And shall find salvation sweet.

Lift him up in all his glory,'T is the Son of God on high;Lift him up, his love shall draw them,E'en the careless shall draw nigh;Let them hear again the storyOf the cross, the death of shame;And from tongue to tongue repeat it;Mighty throngs shall bless his name.

O then lift him up in singing,Lift the Saviour up in prayer;He, the glorious Redeemer,All the sins of men did bear;Yes, the young shall bow before him,And the old their voices raise;All the deaf shall hear hosannah;And the dumb shall shout his praise.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: hymn number «1252» (large, left), title «LIFT HIM UP.» centred (condensed capitals with larger initials); under it the epigraph in two lines, «"The Son of man must be lifted up, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have everlasting life."—John 3 : 14, 15.»; «MAY E. WARREN.» at the left (words) and «D. S. HAKES.» at the right (music), capitals and small capitals; no meter, no reference line and no running head. The four stanzas are interlinear, four lines between the staves of systems 1–4, numbered «1.»–«4.» in system 1; each stanza is eight verse lines, given here as the verse lines of the poem (the staff breaks fall in the middle of verse lines). «CHORUS.» is printed over the treble after the heavy bar line of system 4; its words stand once, continuing the second lyric line of system 4 after «sweet.» and in the one lyric line of system 5. The chorus is given here once, after stanza 1, as printed. Syllable hyphens are joined («dy-ing», «prec-ious», «Sav-iour», «mul-ti-tude», «be-hold», «glo-ry», «sing-ing», «wea-ry», «thirst-ing», «sin-ners», «Liv-ing», «wa-ters», «will-ing», «a-gain», «glo-ri-ous», «Re-deem-er», «be-fore», «low-ly», «joy-ous», «Je-sus», «sto-ry», «re-peat», «Might-y», «voic-es», «ho-san-nah», «sal-va-tion», «ris-en», «a-mid», «wait-ing»). The print sets a thin space before «;» («live ;», «fold ;», «nigh ;»); it is closed up here. Contractions as printed, with the space the print sets in «'t is» / «'T is»; «heav'n», «Hast'ning», «E'en». Some words are set in smaller condensed type to fit («though», «E'en», «Through the», «shame», the first «tongue») and some without a word space («Christshall», «bearthe», «Andshall», «Letthem»): read normally. Under the music: «By permission.» (centred) and the page number «470». Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's («hosannah», «Saviour»).