Lift Up the Banner!

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Lift up the banner, banner of the Lord

Author: Flora Kirkland
Tune: [Lift up the banner! Banner of the Lord!]
Published in 6 hymnals

Author: Flora Kirkland

Flora Kirkland was born in 1862 in Kentucky, before moving to Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from school she became a public school teacher for the seventh grade. She was a member of Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church for which she wrote a number of hymns. She was very active in the Wallabout Bay Mission in that neighborhood of Brooklyn. Most of Wallabout Bay would be filled in to make way for the Brooklyn Navy Yard. She died 17 January 1911. Brooklyn Standard Union, 16 January 1911 Go to person page >

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First Line:	Lift up the banner, banner of the Lord
Title:	Lift Up the Banner!
Author:	Flora Kirkland
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Lift up the banner! 'Tis the ensign of the King
Publication Date:	1905
Copyright:	Public Domain