Let Us Arise and Build

Let us arise with faith and build
Beside Life’s troubled sea
A living church where storms are stilled,
Where souls are won and hearts are filled
With fire that we may be
A lighthouse sending undimmed ray
To pierce sin’s gloom and light men’s way.

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Let us not build a monument
To satisfy our pride,
Nor for a show of self-content,
For then our strength is vainly spent,
Our talents ill applied;
Let us not build with bricks alone:
A living church is flesh and bone.

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Let us arise and build with haste,
For moments quickly flee;
And death consumes with needless waste
The countless souls who’ve failed to taste
The power of Calvary;
The fields are white with harvest now;
To reap with haste must be our vow.

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Let us not build with unclean hands,
Defiled with sin and strife;
The living church unblemished stands;
From each who builds our God demands
A consecrated life;
Let our contrition be outpoured
If we’re to build to please the Lord.

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Let us arise and build with all
The fervent zeal we know;
The church of Christ shall rise are fall,
Shall soar to heights or feebly crawl
Upon the faith we show:
Its success shall be in precise
Proportion to our sacrifice.