Stand up! stand up for Jesus

Ancient song of charge to warfare.

That arm of flesh will certainly fail, but on the Solid Rock, there is nothing to fear. Hallelujah!

Awesome hymn. Clarion call for steadfastness in the Lord. I have been greatly blessed.

One of my favourite hymn. God is glorius. Amen.

Ye dare not trust your own.

Put on the Gospel armor,

Do not fight naked of reality or wisdom, be clothed in Truth, in Righteousness, In action of Gospel, In Faith, In Salvation, With the Word and The Holly Spirit.

Amen.

This song was beautifully recorded by Henry Burr in 1905. He was a Christian man God blessed with an real angel voice and I heard this song by Henry on Youtube and feeled me really blessed by God. This song mean so much to me. I really love this song and I really thanks God I can hear it with Henry Burr so often I will on Youtube.

On my daily prayer walk with the dog I was lifting up my pastor and prayed 'The Armour' of God over him, when this old hymn came back to mind. I had no idea of the back story on it's creation. Scroll down to view it.

God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow.

Stand up for Jesus the king.

It was in 1858 that a great city-wide revival swept through Philadelphia. It was called "The Work of God in Philadelphia". Of the participating ministers, none was more powerful than the 29-year-old Episcopalian, Dudley Tyng.

Tyng was known as a bold, fearless and uncompromising preacher with great influence on the other spiritual leaders around him. His father, the Rev. Stephen Tyng, was for many years pastor of the large Episcopalian Church of the Epiphany in Philadelphia. After serving a time as his father's assistant, young Dudley succeeded his father as the senior minister.

However, some of the more fashionable members soon became upset with their young pastor because of his strong, straightforward preaching. He resigned this pulpit and organized the Church of the Covenant with a group of his faithful followers.

In addition to his duties in this new and growing congregation, Dudley began holding noonday services at the downtown YMCA. Great crowds came to hear this dynamic young preacher.

At noon, March 30, 1858, over 5, 000 men gathered for a mass men's meeting to hear young Tyng preach from Exodus 10:11 "Ye that are men, go and serve the Lord."

Over 1, 000 of these men committed their lives to Christ. The sermon was described as "one of the most successful of the times." As a climax, the young preacher shouted out, "I must tell my Master's errand, and I would rather that this right arm were amputated at the trunk than that I should come short of my duty to you in delivering God's message."

The very next week, while visiting in the country and watching the operation of a corn threshing machine in a barn, young Tyng accidentally caught his loose sleeve between the cogs; the arm was lacerated severely with the main artery severed and the median nerve injured.

Four days later severe infection developed. As a result of shock and a great loss of blood, the Rev. Dudley Tyng died on April 19, 1858.

On his death bed when asked by a group of sorrowing friends and fellow ministers for a final statement, he whispered feebly, "Let us all stand up for Jesus."

The next Sunday Tyng's close friend, the Rev. George Duffield, pastor of the Temple Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, delivered a tribute to his departed colleague. He chose as his text Ephesians 6:14 "Stand, thereforefore, having your loins girded about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness."

Pastor Duffield closed his sermon by reading a poem that he had just finished writing. He told his people that he had been inspired by the dying words of his esteemed friend. Rev. Duffield's Sunday school superintendent was so impressed by these verses that he had them printed for distribution throughout the entire congregation. The editor of a Baptist magazine received one of these pamphlets and promptly gave the text wider circulation.

And from that time to the present, the hymn "Stand Up for Jesus" has found its way into the hearts and hymnals of God's people around the world. - 52 Hymn Stories Dramatized by Kenneth W. Osbeck

The LORD is good.