Sing A Song Of The Saints

While perusing the pages of the UCC hymnal, this one also caught my eye: "I Sing a Song of the Saints of God", words by Lesbia Scott, 1929, and melody by John H. Hopkins, 1940.

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Verse 1:

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I sing a song of the saints of God,

Patient and brave and true,

Who toiled and fought

And lived and died

For the Lord they loved and knew.

And one was a doctor,

And one was a queen,

And one was a shepherdess on the green:

They were all of them saints of God,

and I mean,

God helping,

To be one, too.

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Verse 2:

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They loved their Lord so dear, so dear,

And His love made them strong;

And they followed the right,

For Jesus' sake,

The whole of their good lives long.

And one was a soldier,

And one was a priest,

And one was slain by a fierce wild beast:

And there's not any reason,

No, no the least,

Why I shouldn't be one, too.

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Verse 3:

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They lived not only in ages past,

There are hundreds of thousands still;

The world is bright with the joyful saints

Who love to do Jesus' will.

You can meet them in school,

Or in lanes,

Or at sea,

In church,

Or in trains,

Or in shops,

Or at tea;

For the saints of God are just folk

Like me,

And I mean to be one, too.

AMEN

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