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Am I a soldier of the cross
Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,944 hymnals Topics: The Church Militant The Christian warfare Used With Tune: MARLOW
Am I a soldier of the cross
Rise up, O men of God!
Author: William Pierson Merrill Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 254 hymnals Topics: The Church Militant and Triumphant Used With Tune: WATCHMAN
Rise up, O men of God!
Be Strong in the Lord
Author: Timothy Dudley-Smtih, b. 1926 Meter: 5.5.5.5.6.5.6.5 Appears in 4 hymnals Topics: The Church Militant Lyrics: 1 Be strong in the Lord
In armour of light,
With helmet and sword,
With shield for the fight;
On prayer be dependent,
Be belted and shod,
In breastplate resplendent:
The armour of God.
2 Integrity gird
You round to impart
The truth of His Word
As truth in your heart;
His righteousness wearing
As breastplate of mail,
His victory sharing,
Be strong to prevail.
3 With eagerness shod
Stand firm in your place,
Or go forth for God
With news of His grace;
No foe shall disarm you
Nor force you to yield,
No arrow can harm you
With faith as your shield.
4 Though Satan presume
To test you and try,
In helmet and plume
Your head shall be high;
Beset by temptation
Be true to your Lord,
Your helmet salvation
And Scripture your sword.
5 So wield well your blade,
Rejoice in its pow'rs,
Fight on undismayed
For Jesus is ours!
Then in Him victorious
Your armour lay down,
To praise, ever glorious,
His cross and His crown.
Scripture: Ephesians 6:10-18 Used With Tune: LAUDATE DOMINUM
Be Strong in the Lord
EIN FESTE BURG (Rhythmic)
Meter: 8.7.8.7.5.5.5.6.7 Appears in 646 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Martin Luther, 1483-1546 Topics: The Church Militant Tune Sources: The Lutheran Hymnal, 1941 (Setting) Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 11156 71765 17656 Used With Text: A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
EIN FESTE BURG (Rhythmic)
ALL SAINTS NEW
Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 537 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Henry S. Cutler, 1824-1902 Topics: The Church Militant Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 53451 17712 34322 Used With Text: The Son of God Goes Forth to War
ALL SAINTS NEW
Onward, Christian soldiers
Author: Sabine Baring-Gould Hymnal: The Hymnal of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America 1940 #557 (1940) Meter: 6.5.6.5 D with refrain Topics: The Church Militant; The Church Militant The Christian warfare Tune Title: ST. GERTRUDE
Onward, Christian soldiers
Brightly gleams our banner
Author: William Walsham How; Thomas Joseph Potter Hymnal: The Hymnal of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America 1940 #559 (1940) Meter: 6.5.6.5 D with refrain Topics: The Church Militant; The Church Militant The Christian warfare Tune Title: SION
Brightly gleams our banner
Forward! be our watchword
Author: Henry Alford Hymnal: The Hymnal of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America 1940 #561 (1940) Topics: The Church Militant; The Church Militant The Christian warfare Tune Title: ST. BONIFACE
Forward! be our watchword
Hans Leo Hassler
1564 - 1612 Person Name: Hans Leo Hassler, 1564-1612 Topics: The Church Militant Arranger of "ERHALT UNS, HERR" in Lutheran Service Book Hans Leo Hassler Germany 1564-1612. Born at Nuremberg, Germany, he came from a family of famous musicians and received early education from his father. He then studied in Venice, Italy, with Andrea Gabrieli, uncle of Giovanni Gabrieli, his friend, with whom he composed a wedding motet. The uncle taught him to play the organ. He learned the polychoral style and took it back to Germany after Andrea Gabrieli's death. He served as organist and composer for Octavian Fugger, the princely art patron of Augsburg (1585-1601). He was a prolific composer but found his influence limited, as he was Protestant in a still heavily Catholic region. In 1602 he became director of town music and organist in the Frauenkirche in Nuremberg until 1608. He married Cordula Claus in 1604. He was finally court musician for the Elector of Saxony in Dresden, Germany, evenually becoming Kapellmeister (1608-1612). A Lutheran, he composed both for Roman Catholic liturgy and for Lutheran churches. He produced two volumns of motets, a famous collection of court songs, and a volume of simpler hymn settings. He published both secular and religious music, managing to compose much for the Catholic church that was also usable in Lutheran settings. He was also a consultant to organ builders. In 1596 he, with 53 other organists, had the opportunity to examine a new instrument with 59 stops at the Schlosskirche, Groningen. He was recognized for his expertise in organ design and often was called on to examine new instruments. He entered the world of mechanical instrument construction, developing a clockwork organ that was later sold to Emperor Rudolf II. He died of tuberculosis in Frankfurt, Germany.
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Hans Leo Hassler
William Croft
1678 - 1727 Person Name: W. Croft, 1678-1727 Topics: The Church Militant and Triumphant Composer of "ST. MATTHEW" in The Methodist Hymn-Book with Tunes William Croft, Mus. Doc. was born in the year 1677 and received his musical education in the Chapel Royal, under Dr. Blow. In 1700 he was admitted a Gentleman Extraordinary of the Chapel Boyd; and in 1707, upon the decease of Jeremiah Clarke, he was appointed joint organist with his mentor, Dr. Blow. In 1709 he was elected organist of Westminster Abbey. This amiable man and excellent musician died in 1727, in the fiftieth year of his age. A very large number of Dr. Croft's compositions remain still in manuscript.
Cathedral chants of the XVI, XVII & XVIII centuries, ed. by Edward F. Rimbault, London: D. Almaine & Co., 1844
William Croft
George Duffield
1818 - 1888 Person Name: George Duffield, 1818-88 Topics: The Church Militant and Triumphant Author of "Stand up, stand up for Jesus" in The Methodist Hymn-Book with Tunes Duffield, George, Jr., D.D., son of the Rev. Dr. Duffield, a Presbyterian Minister, was born at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Sept. 12, 1818, and graduated at Yale College, and at the Union Theological Seminary, New York. From 1840 to 1847 he was a Presbyterian Pastor at Brooklyn; 1847 to 1852, at Bloomfield, New Jersey; 1852 to 1861, at Philadelphia; 1861 to 1865, at Adrian, Michigan; 1865 to 1869, at Galesburg, Illinois; 1869, at Saginaw City, Michigan; and from 1869 at Ann Arbor and Lansing, Michigan. His hymns include;—
1. Blessed Saviour, Thee I love. Jesus only. One of four hymns contributed by him to Darius E. Jones's Temple Melodies, 1851. It is in 6 stanzas of 6 lines. In Dr. Hatfield's Church Hymnbook it is given in 3 stanzas. The remaining three hymns of the same date are:—
2. Parted for some anxious days. Family Hymn.
3. Praise to our heavenly Father, God. Family Union.
4. Slowly in sadness and in tears. Burial.
5. Stand up, stand up for Jesus. Soldiers of the Cross. The origin of this hymn is given in Lyra Sac. Americana, 1868, p. 298, as follows:—
"I caught its inspiration from the dying words of that noble young clergyman, Rev. Dudley Atkins Tyng, rector of the Epiphany Church, Philadelphia, who died about 1854. His last words were, ‘Tell them to stand up for Jesus: now let us sing a hymn.' As he had been much persecuted in those pro-slavery days for his persistent course in pleading the cause of the oppressed, it was thought that these words had a peculiar significance in his mind; as if he had said, ‘Stand up for Jesus in the person of the downtrodden slave.' (Luke v. 18.)"
Dr. Duffield gave it, in 1858, in manuscript to his Sunday School Superintendent, who published it on a small handbill for the children. In 1858 it was included in The Psalmist, in 6 stanzas of 8 lines. It was repeated in several collections and in Lyra Sac. Amer., 1868, from whence it passed, sometimes in an abbreviated form, into many English collections. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]
- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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