The New Christian Hymnal ‎#172

172. 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 Savior died.

2. Fling out the banner! heathen 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.

Text Information

• First Line: Fling out the banner! let it float
• Title: Fling Out the Banner! Let It Float!
• Author: Bishop George W. Doane (1848)
• Meter: L M
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1929
• Topic: The Church; Means of Grace: Missions
• Notes: Now Public Domain.

Tune Information

• Name: WALTHAM
• Composer: J. Baptiste Calkin (1872)
• Meter: L M
• Incipit: 13233 43445 17665
• Key: E♭ Major
• Notes: Now Public Domain.