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FIGHT ON

Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. P. Reese Tune Key: e minor or modal Incipit: 11345 71755 34515 Used With Text: Fight on, my soul, till death

Fight on, my soul, till death

Author: George Heath Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 1 hymnal Used With Tune: FIGHT ON

I lift my heart to God

Appears in 2 hymnals Used With Tune: FIGHT ON

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Fight on, my soul, till death

Author: George Heath Hymnal: The Sacred Harp #385a (1991) Meter: 6.6.8.6 Languages: English Tune Title: FIGHT ON

I lift my heart to God

Hymnal: The Good Old Songs #416 (1914) Languages: English Tune Title: FIGHT ON

1745 - 1822 Author of "Fight on, my soul, till death" in The Sacred Harp Rv George Heath DD United Kingdom 1745-1822. Born at Exeter, Devon, England, he was educated at the Dissenting Academy and King’s College, Cambridge. He married Mary Ann Kean, and they had 4 children: Louisa, John, Charles, and Benjamin (also a minister). He served as pastor of the Honiton, Devonshire, Presbyterian Church, but proved unworthy and was dismissed for cause. He later became a Unitarian minister. In 1781 he published “Hymns & poetic essays sacred to the worship of the Deity”. He also authored a “History of Bristol”. He became Headmaster of Eton College (1792-1802). He joined the Anglican Church and became Canon of Windsor (1800-1822), Rector of Monks Risborough, Vicar of Sturminster Marshall, Dorset, Vicar of Piddletown, Vicar of East Beachsworth (1805-1814), and Fellow of the Royal Society (1795-1822). He was appointed to the 4th stall in St. George’s Chapel in 1800, Windsor Castle, and died at his residence in the Cloisters, Windsor Castle. John Perry ======================= Heath, George, became pastor of a Presbyterian Church at Honiton, Devon, in 1770, and died in 1822. He published a History of Bristol, 1797. Also Hymns and Poetic Essays Sacred to the Public and Private Worship of the Deity, &c, Bristol, 1781, from which "My soul, be on thy guard" (Steadfastness), is taken. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

John Palmer Reese

1828 - 1900 Person Name: J. P. Reese Composer of "FIGHT ON" in The Sacred Harp John Palmer "Ripples" Reese was born in Jasper County, Georgia. After service in the Civil War as a member of the 37th Georgia Infantry, he spent most of his life as a composer and singing instructor in the Sacred Harp movement. He was a revisor for the 1859 edition of The Sacred Harp. He was president of the Chattahoochee Convention. Reese died in 1900, in Newnan, Georgia. Antonio Higgins