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To arms ye Christian soldiers

Author: Alexander Ramsay Thompson Appears in 3 hymnals Text Sources: Parisian Breviary, author uncertain

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To arms ye Christian soldiers

Hymnal: Hymnal #106 (1870) Languages: English

To arms, ye Christian soldiers!

Author: Alex R. Thompson, D.D. Hymnal: Manual for the chapel of Girard College #162 (1891) Meter: 7.6 Languages: English

To arms, ye Christian soldiers!

Author: Alex. R. Thompson (1822- ) Hymnal: A Manual of Worship #221 (1903) Languages: English

1822 - 1895 Person Name: Alex R. Thompson, D.D. Translator of "To arms, ye Christian soldiers!" in Manual for the chapel of Girard College Thompson, Alexander Ramsay, D.D., a minister of the American Reformed Dutch Church, was born at New York, Oct. 22, 1822, and graduated at the New York University, 1842, and the Princeton Seminary, 1845. He was Reformed Dutch Pastor at various places, including East Brooklyn, St. Paul's (R. P. D.), New York City, North Reformed Church, Brooklyn (1874), and others. Dr. Thompson was joint editor of the Reformed Dutch Hymns of the Church, N. Y., 1869, and the Hymns of Prayer and Praise, 1871. He has contributed original hymns and translations from the Latin to these collections, to Schaff’s Christ in Song, 1869, and to the Sunday School Times, Philadelphia, 1883, &c. In addition two original hymns:— 1. 0 Thou Whose filmed and fading eye. Good Friday. 2. Wayfarers in the wilderness. Life a Pilgrimage. are in the Hymns of the Church, 1869, with the signature "A. R. T." [Rev F. M. Bird, M.A.] -- Excerpts from John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)