Arise, My Soul, Arise

Words by Charles Wesley Music by Lewis Edson

"Arise, my soul, arise, Shake off thy guilty fears.”

First published in 1742 under the title, ”Behold the Man,” this became one of the most useful of Charles Wesley's numerous hymns. In universal use in English countries, and translated into many languages, it has been the direct instrumentality in the conversion of thousands of souls. It has found expression in the exultant cry on the lips of many a dying saint.

"I have a record, ”said a Wesleyan missionary laboring in the West Indies,” of two hundred persons, young and old, who received the most direct evidence of the forgiveness of their sins while singing 'Arise, my soul.' The conversion of the greater number of these persons took place while I was a missionary abroad."