Forget them not, O Christ, who stand

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Forget them not, O Christ, who stand

Author: Margaret E. M. Sangster
Published in 9 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	Advent Postludes for Organ

Instrumental
	FESTIVAL HYMNS AND PROCESSIONALS

Handbells
	Easter Triumph

Representative Text

1 Forget them not, O Christ, who stand
Thy vanguard in the distant land.

2 In flood, in flame, in dark, in dread,
Sustain, we pray, each lifted head.

3 Exalt them over every fear,
In peril come Thyself more near.

4 Thine is the work they strive to do,
Their foes so many, they so few.

5 Be with Thine own, Thy loved, who stand,
Christ's vanguard in the storm-swept land.

Amen.

Source: The Christian Hymnary: books 1-4 #540

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Author: Margaret E. M. Sangster

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First Line:	Forget them not, O Christ, who stand
Author:	Margaret E. M. Sangster
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

1 Samuel 12:23
(hymns)

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TRURO (Williams)

TRURO is an anonymous tune, first published in Thomas Williams's Psalmodia Evangelica, (second vol., 1789) as a setting for Isaac Watts' "Now to the Lord a noble song." Virtually nothing is known about this eighteenth-century British editor of the two-volume Psalmodia Evangelica, a collection of thr…

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