Words: , Selection of Psalms and Hymns, 8th edition, 1819. stated that this hymn seems to be based on O’er Those Gloomy Hills of Darkness, by .
Music: Putney, , Carmina Sacra (Boston, Massachusetts: J. H. Wilkins & R. B. Carter, 1844).
O’er the realms of pagan darkness,
Let the eye of pity gaze;
See the kindreds of the people
Lost in sin’s bewildering maze;
Darkness brooding
On the face of all the earth.
Thou to Whom all power is given,
Speak the word; at Thy command
Let the company of preachers
Spread Thy Name from land to land!
Lord, be with them
Alway to the end of time.