Trumpet of God, sound high

Trumpet of God, sound high. Arnold Brooks* (1870-1933). First published in the Foreign Mission Chronicle (October 1900), a magazine of the Scottish Episcopal Church, of which Brooks was a priest. It was written at the request of the editor, E.C. Dawson. It was revised for publication in A&M (1904), where it had three stanzas. Stanza 1 applies the trumpet image from the fall of Jericho (Joshua 6: 1-20) to the mission field, in which ‘the fencèd cities’ are to fall ‘at the blast of the Gospel call’; stanza 2 addresses the ‘Hosts of the Lord’ in terms that echo Isaiah 43: 5-6 (‘Till the south be at one with the north,/ And peace upon east and west’). The tune, written for this hymn in the...

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