Quit You Like Men

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"Quit you like men!" Life's battle lies before you

Author: W. Hay M. H. Aitken (1887)
Published in 2 hymnals

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1 "Quit you like men!"
Life's battle lies before you:
Will you prove traitors to your Prince above?
Will ye desert His standard floating o'er you–
The bannered Cross of Jesus' dying love?

Chorus:
Faithful and loyal, Master, may we be,
Living or dying, faithful still to Thee.
Serving the Christ, and serving Him, forever
From Satan's bondage He will keep you free.

2 "Quit you like men!"
Heaven's victor-voices call you;
Oh, be ashamed of all your coward shame;
Let not the fear of man of fiend appal you;
They always win who fight in Jesus' name. [Chorus]

3 "Quit you like men!"
No longer slaves of passion;
Led by your lusts or Mammon's selfish greed!
No more enthralled by some unholy fashion,
Freed by God's Son, then are ye free indeed. [Chorus]

4 "Quit you like men!"
Be true to you true nature;
Are not our bodies temples of our God?
Grow up in Christ to manhood's fullest stature,
Tread in the steps the Perfect Man hath trod. [Chorus]

5 "Quit you like men!"
"Behold the Man!" that liveth,
And once was slain, that ye may live to God;
Take to your hearts the'eternal life He giveth–
Peace, pardon, pow'r He purchased with His blood. [Chorus]

Source: The Male Chorus No. 1: for use in gospel meetings, Christian associations and other religious services #52

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Author: W. Hay M. H. Aitken

Aitken, William Hay Macdowall Hunter, M.A., youngest son of Robert Aitken, sometime Vicar of Pendeen, was born at Liverpool Sep. 21, 1841, and educated at Wadham College, Oxford; B.A. in honours in 1865. He was ordained to the Curacy of St. Jude's, Mildmay Park, N., in 1865; became Incumbent of Christ Church, Everton, Liverpool, in 1871, but he resigned in 1875 in order to devote himself entirely to parochial mission work. He became General Superintendent of the Church Parochial Mission Society in 1877, and Canon Residentiary of Norwich in 1900. He has published twelve volumes of sermons, together with other works. His hymns in common use, mainly in Home Mission Hymn Books, include:— 1. Bow down Thine ear, in mercy hearken. [Penitence… Go to person page >

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First Line:	"Quit you like men!" Life's battle lies before you
Title:	Quit You Like Men
Author:	W. Hay M. H. Aitken (1887)
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Faithful and loyal
Copyright:	Public Domain