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[Church of the living God awake!]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: H. L. Stephens Incipit: 32155 61511 71253 Used With Text: China's Millions

Author: Henry Grattan Guinness Appears in 5 hymnals First Line: Church of the living God, awake! Refrain First Line: Canst thou shut thine ear to the awful sound Lyrics: 1 Church of the living God, awake! Awake from thy sinful sleep! Dost thou not hear thy brothers’ cry Still sounding o’er the deep? Is it naught that one of every four Of all the human race Should in China die, having never heard The Gospel of God’s grace? Refrain: Canst thou shut thine ear to the awful sound, The voice of thy brothers’ blood, A million a month in China Are dying without God. 2 Watchman of God, thou seest now The sword of destruction come; Why soundest not the warning cry ’Mid hosts of heathendom? God says that if thou warnest not The wicked at His command, He shall perish but His blood shall be Required at thy hand. [Refrain] 3 Go, for the Savior sends thee forth To call from the distant East Idolaters for whom Christ died, To Heaven’s marriage feast. The Gospel that thou hearest now The pow’r of God shall prove To triumph o’er the souls of men By th’omnipotence of love. [Refrain] Used With Tune: [Church of the living God, awake] Text Sources: Hymns of the Christian Life No. 3 by Albert B. Simpson, May A. Stephens and Margaret M.Simpson (New York: Alliance Press, 1904)

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China's Millions

Author: Henry Grattan Guinness Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #14018 First Line: Church of the living God, awake! Refrain First Line: Canst thou shut thine ear to the awful sound Lyrics: 1 Church of the living God, awake! Awake from thy sinful sleep! Dost thou not hear thy brothers’ cry Still sounding o’er the deep? Is it naught that one of every four Of all the human race Should in China die, having never heard The Gospel of God’s grace? Refrain: Canst thou shut thine ear to the awful sound, The voice of thy brothers’ blood, A million a month in China Are dying without God. 2 Watchman of God, thou seest now The sword of destruction come; Why soundest not the warning cry ’Mid hosts of heathendom? God says that if thou warnest not The wicked at His command, He shall perish but His blood shall be Required at thy hand. [Refrain] 3 Go, for the Savior sends thee forth To call from the distant East Idolaters for whom Christ died, To Heaven’s marriage feast. The Gospel that thou hearest now The pow’r of God shall prove To triumph o’er the souls of men By th’omnipotence of love. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [Church of the living God, awake]

China's Millions

Author: H. G. Guiness Hymnal: Hymns of the Christian Life. No. 3 #169 (1904) First Line: Church of the living God awake! Refrain First Line: Canst thou shut thine ear to the awful sound Languages: English Tune Title: [Church of the living God awake!]

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H. Grattan Guinness

1835 - 1910 Person Name: H. G. Guiness Author of "China's Millions" in Hymns of the Christian Life. No. 3 Guinness, Henry Grattan, .D.D., son of Capt. John Guinness of Dublin, was born at Mountpellier, near Dublin, in 1835. His work as an undenominational Preacher began in 1856, since which time he has visited most parts of the world in prosecuting his evangelistic labours. He has written numerous hymns and printed them privately to enclose in letters and parcels, and for general distribution. Of these the following were included in The Enlarged London Hymn Book 1873:— (1) "How beautiful the Saviour's feet" (Christ, in Glory); (2) "Thou art my joy, Lord Jesus" (The Glory of Jesus); (3) "Yes, Thou art mine, my blessed Lord" (Jesus our All). --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ===================== Son of Captain John Guiness, Henry was an Irish Protestant preacher and author, and the great evangelist of the Evangelical Awakening; He preached during the Ulster Revival of 1859, drawing thousands to hear him. He offered to join the China Inland Mission founded by James Hudson Taylor in 1865, but took Taylor’s advice and continued his work in London. In March 1873, Guiness and his wife Fanny started the East London Missionary Training Institute (also called Harley College) at Harley House in Bromley-by-Bow, East End of London, with just six students. The school went on to train 1,330 missionaries for 30 societies of 30 denominations. It was so successful that it needed a larger home, and in 1883, Elizabeth Hulme offered Guinness "Cliff House" near Curbar, Derbyshire. Harley College was renamed Hulme Cliff College; now known as Cliff College, it continues to this day, training and equipping Christians for missions and evangelism. Guinness founded the Livingstone Inland Mission in 1877, the Congo-Baolo Mission in 1888, and in 1898 began the Regions Beyond Missionary Union. --http://www.hymntime.com/tch