Who: This one comes again from the book "Hymns and Poems," published in 1926 by Emanuel Cronenwett. It is a powerful, enheartening reminder to stick to God's Word and our Confessions' understandings of them.
Changes: I've updated it a little. My apologies to the lack of rhyme in stanza one.
Tune: It's LM, so there are lot's of choices. I suggest ERHALT UNS HERR, LSB 655, since it is already associated with similar themes.
"Should we subscribe to each detail
That's found in old-time Bible tales?
Is not much of its outworn page
Too antiquated for our age?"
Such is the light, suggestive theme
Of all too many pulpit schemes.
"So sayeth God?" was Satan's plot
Thereby the world to his feet got.
Lord, Your disciples are not those
Who willfully Your Word oppose;
Nor do they court the world's applause,
But faithfully advance Your cause.
Those who on You and Your Word stand
Uphold the Rule of Your Command,
Our pure Confessions rest their stay
On God's sure Truth that stays always.
Lord, let Your Word remain our Light!
Our faith make strong, our practice right;
And for the Faith help us contend
And walk by faith unto the end.
E. Cronenwett, alt.
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