At the beach

“The best way to be missed when you’re gone is to stand for something when you are here,” says the author Seth Godin.

Looking for a certain hymn in one of our hymn books, I came across the hymn, “Stand up, stand up for Jesus, ye soldiers of the cross!”
In the hymn book I am also told how the hymn came into being. A powerful preacher had a tragic accident and was dying and on his deathbed he was saying as his final statement, “Let us all stand up for Jesus.”

One of the ministers at his deathbed was the Rev. George Duffield. Inspired by the words, “Let us stand up for Jesus,” he wrote the hymn, “Stand up for Jesus.”

The hymn has three verses:

“Stand up, stand up for Jesus, the trumpet call obey,” is the beginning of the second verse.

The last verse begins with, “Stand up, stand up for Jesus, the strife will not be long.”

“If we don’t stand for something, we’ll fall for anything!”

Many years ago you could see that sign at a church.

“Stand up, stand up, for Jesus!”