Hold the Banner High by Ella Stowell Barr

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 16, 1914

Hold the Banner High

By Ella Stowell Barr

ARE you looking for the Saviour? Are you longing day by day To behold Him in the heavens, Clothed in glorious, bright array?

Does your heart beat high with rapture As you see the signs appear Which the prophets said would tell us That His coming's drawing near?

Are the dearest of your loved ones Held by Death's relentless grasp? Does your heart grow sick with longing Once again their forms to clasp?

Would you hasten the glad morning When the righteous dead shall be Brought again from Death's dominion, Clothed in immortality?

Do you know that by our efforts, By our prayers, and gifts of gold Spent in heralding His coming, Bringing others to His fold,

We can bring the glad day nearer That shall put an end to strife, When the dead shall hear the summons Calling them again to life?

O, then hold the banner higher, That the world around may know That there's something more to live for Than earth's vanity and show.

Keep the beacons brightly burning, With a sacred flame divine, So that each benighted trav'ler May the sure path quickly find.

For the hours are swiftly passing; Soon will sound the cry, "Too late," From the angel who in mercy Holds ajar the pearly gate. ELLA STOWELL BARR.