Go Ye Therefore

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Go, ye messengers of God

Author: Joshua Marsden
Published in 121 hymnals

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1 Go, ye messengers of God;
Like the beams of morning, fly;
Take the wonder-working rod;
Wave the banner-cross on high.

2 Where the lofty minaret
Gleams along the morning skies,
Wave it till the crescent set,
And the “Star of Jacob” rise.

3 Go to many a tropic isle
In the bosom of the deep,
Where the skies forever smile,
And th’oppressed forever weep.

4 O’er the pagan’s night of care
Pour the living light of heav’n;
Chase away his dark despair,
Bid him hope to be forgiv’n.

Source: Songs of the Sanctuary #119

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Author: Joshua Marsden

Marsden, Joshua, a Wesleyan Methodist Missionary in Nova Scotia, and afterwards in the Bermuda Islands, born in 1777, and died in 1837. He published Amusements of a Mission, N. Y., 1812, in which a poem on Missions appeared as "Go, ye messengers of God." In his Narrative of a Mission (2nd ed.), 1827, he claims this as his own. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) Go to person page >

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First Line:	Go, ye messengers of God
Title:	Go Ye Therefore
Author:	Joshua Marsden
Meter:	7.7.7.7
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Tune

[Go, ye messengers of God] (Kirkpatrick)

MERCY (Gottschalk)

MENDELSSOHN (51171)

The tune is from the second chorus of Felix Mendelssohn's (PHH 279) Festgesang (Op. 68) for male voices and brass; it was first performed in 1840 at the Gutenberg Festival in Leipzig, a festival celebrating the anniversary of Gutenberg's invention of the printing press. Mendelssohn's tune is similar…

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