In Lands Across The Sea

 

"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." 
(John 15:13)

Flanders Field American Cemetery

Belgium

Picture Courtesy/American Battle Monuments Commission 

Let freemen's hearts grow bolder;

Let freedom's banner fly

Where God's four winds unfold her

To God's uncharted sky.

His Word and not another's

Is pledged to liberty;

His hand hath made men brothers

His truth shall make men free.

Where freedom's flag is flying

In lands across the sea

On Thee we are relying,

Great God, we count on Thee!

For right is right forever,

Though men have crowned the wrong,

And truth shall perish never-

Great God, how long? how long?

When our brave lads are dying

In lands across the sea,

On Thee we are relying

Great God, they die for Thee!

And if we lay them sleeping

In lands beyond the sea,

God, have them in Thy keeping-

We leave them there with Thee.

"In Lands Across The Sea"
(1917)
Louis Fitzgerald Benton
(1855-1930)
American Presbyterian pastor
 and hymnist

At the eleventh hour on the eleventh day
of the eleventh month- November 11, 1918
 an armistice was signed bringing an end to the
Great War between the Allied Powers and Germany.

The guns of war fell silent.  Many young American men
 who were sent to liberate Europe from tyranny and
oppression never came home again.

May their service for the cause of freedom never be forgotten.