“We have a gospel to proclaim” is a hymn recent enough, I think, that it is still under copyright. So I will present excerpts. The entire hymn may be seen in Singing the Faith: Words Edition (The Methodist Church, 2011, No. 418).
1. We have a gospel to proclaim
Good news for men in all the earth;
The gospel of a Saviour’s name:
We sing His glory, tell His worth.
...
3. Tell of His death at Calvary,
Hated by those He came to save;
In lonely suffering on the cross
For all He loved, His life He gave.
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6. Now we rejoice to name him King:
Jesus is Lord of all the earth.
The gospel-message we proclaim:
We sing his glory, tell his worth.
Jesus is Lord of all the earth.
The gospel-message we proclaim:
We sing his glory, tell his worth.
The author of this, Edward Joseph Burns, was born in 1938 in Nelson, Lancashire, England. He is a priest or canon in the Church of England. This hymn is in Long Meter, and might be used with any good tune in that meter. In the music edition of Singing the Faith, it is presented with the tune Walton or Fulda (aka Germany) by William Gardiner (1770-1853), found in his Sacred Melodies, 1815.
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