The Christian Commission

Words by Rev. J. G. Chafee
Music by Philip Phillips

Go, holy messenger, angelic Dove!
Bear to our soldier-boys tokens of love;
Where’er you find them, let your employ;
Lighten their sorrows, and fill them with joy;
Lighten their sorrows, and fill them with joy.

Go to the fields where they lie in their gore;
Into their wounds your sweet charities pour;
Bind up their bleeding limbs, soften their pain;
Bring happy smiles to their faces again;
Bring happy smiles to their faces again.

Into the hospitals hasten, and stay
Close by the beds where the sufferers lay;
Feed them, and nurse them, and comfort them there,
Oft you shall give to them hope for despair;
Oft you shall give to them hope for despair.