Challenge Thy People

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Challenge thy people, Jehovah of hosts

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds
Tune: [Challenge thy people, Jehovah of hosts]
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1 Challenge Thy people, Jehovah of hosts,
Speak as of old at this hour,
Silence alike their complaints and their boasts,
Challenge Thy people with pow’r.

2 Speak to them out of the pillar of cloud,
Speak from the pillar of flame;
Show them their sin, lest they dare to be proud,
Show them their weakness and shame.

3 Give them a task that will drain their heart’s blood,
Lead on a wilderness way;
Call them to conquest thru fire-line and flood,
Challenge Thy people today!

Source: Hymns for Today: for Sunday Schools, Young People's Societies, The Church, The Home, Community Welfare Associations, and Patriotic Meetings #156

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Author: Jessie Brown Pounds

Jessie Brown Pounds was born in Hiram, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland on 31 August 1861. She was not in good health when she was a child so she was taught at home. She began to write verses for the Cleveland newspapers and religious weeklies when she was fifteen. After an editor of a collection of her verses noted that some of them would be well suited for church or Sunday School hymns, J. H. Fillmore wrote to her asking her to write some hymns for a book he was publishing. She then regularly wrote hymns for Fillmore Brothers. She worked as an editor with Standard Publishing Company in Cincinnati from 1885 to 1896, when she married Rev. John E. Pounds, who at that time was a pastor of the Central Christian Church in Indianapolis. A memorab… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Challenge thy people, Jehovah of hosts
Title:	Challenge Thy People
Author:	Jessie Brown Pounds
Language:	English
Publication Date:	1920
Copyright:	Public Domain