Text:Fling Out the Banner! Let It Float
Author:George W. Doane
Tune:WALTHAM
Composer:John Baptiste Calkin

506. Fling Out the Banner! Let It Float

1 Fling out the banner! let it float
Skyward and seaward, high and wide;
The sun that lights its shining folds,
The cross on which the Saviour died.

2 Fling out the banner! distant lands
Shall see from far the glorious sight,
And nations, crowding to be born,
Baptize their spirits in its light.

3 Fling out the banner! sin-sick souls
That sink and perish in the strife,
Shall touch in faith its radiant hem
And spring immortal into life.

4 Fling out the banner! let it float
Skyward and seaward, high and wide;
Our glory, only in the cross;
Our only hope, the Crucified!

5 Fling out the banner! wide and high,
Seaward and skyward, let it shine:
Nor skill, nor might, nor merit ours;
We conquer only in that sign.

Amen.

Text Information
First Line: Fling out the banner! let it float
Title: Fling Out the Banner! Let It Float
Author: George W. Doane (1848)
Meter: L. M.
Publication Date: 1955
Scripture: ;
Topic: Cross, The; Missions; Recessionals (1 more...)
Tune Information
Name: WALTHAM
Composer: John Baptiste Calkin (1872)
Meter: L. M.
Key: E♭ Major



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