The Call of Love
Author: C. Austin Miles
Composer: C. Austin Miles
Languages (6)
This song text has been indexed at SingPraises.net in the following languages:
- English: The Call of Love
- French: L’appel de l’amour
- Japanese: [Unknown title]
- Portuguese: A Voz de Amor
- Spanish: La Voz de Amor
- Swedish: Ett kärleksrop
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Most common tunes for “The Call of Love”
This chart shows the tunes that are paired with this text most frequently, in hymnbooks and other collections published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. If the text appears with the same tune in multiple editions or translations of the same hymnbook, it is only counted once.
Appearances of “The Call of Love” over time
This timeline shows which tunes have been used with this text over time, in hymnbooks and other collections published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Copyright status of original text
This text was first published in English, in 1920 or earlier.
Public domain
Earliest source indexed at SingPraises.net: Primary Song Book (1920), no. 190.
Representative lyrics
English (Original Language)
1. Far above earth’s tumult, The call of love we hear, Shall its gentle pleading Fall on a heedless ear?
O hear the call of love, O hear the call of love. The call of love is to mercy and pardon and peace, The call of love is to service that never shall cease, Till we shall enter that land of promise where true joys abound, Then onward press, my comrades, we are gaining, we are gaining ground.
2. Not from far off country, Or land across the sea, Comes with earnest pleading The call of love to me.
O hear the call of love, O hear the call of love. The call of love is to mercy and pardon and peace, The call of love is to service that never shall cease, Till we shall enter that land of promise where true joys abound, Then onward press, my comrades, we are gaining, we are gaining ground.
3. He who is my neighbor, And needs a cheering word, In his faintest whisper The call of love is heard.
O hear the call of love, O hear the call of love. The call of love is to mercy and pardon and peace, The call of love is to service that never shall cease, Till we shall enter that land of promise where true joys abound, Then onward press, my comrades, we are gaining, we are gaining ground.