Line Up For Jesus

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Line up, line up for Jesus, go forward to the fight

Author: Haldor Lillenas
Tune: [Line up, line up for Jesus, go forward to the fight]
Published in 4 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

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1 Line up, line up for Jesus, go forward to the fight,
Against the pow’r of evil and for the cause of right.

Refrain:
Line up, line up for Jesus,
For Him a soldier be,
Yielding never,
Forward ever,
Marching on to victory,
Line up, line up for Jesus,
For Him a soldier be,
Till His flag be unfurled o’er the whole wide world;
Line up,
Line up,
Line up for Jesus.

2 Line up, line up for Jesus, no longer idle stand,
While precious souls are dying in sin on ev’ry hand. [Refrain]

3 Line up, line up for Jesus, oh waste no precious time
In drifting with the current of darkness, sin, and crime. [Refrain]

4 Line up, line up for Jesus, as one united band,
To spread the blessed gospel in ev’ry tribe and land. [Refrain]

Source: The King of Glory #124

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Author: Haldor Lillenas

Rv Haldor Lillenas DMus Norway/USA 1885-1959. Born at Stord, near Bergen, Norway, his father sold their 15 acre farm in Norway and emigrated to the U.S., buying a farm in Colton, SD. After he built a sod house, the family (wife and three chldren) also came to SD in 1887. They moved to Astoria, Oregon in 1889, where Lillenas learned English and began writing song lyrics at an early age. In 1900 the family moved again to Roseville, MN, where he worked as a farm laborer and began attending a Lutheran high school at Hawick, MN. He sold a few songs at age 19. At age 21 he began writing more songs, encouraged by some earlier ones becoming popular (“He set me free” was one). His mother died in 1906 and his father returned to ND, but Li… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Line up, line up for Jesus, go forward to the fight
Title:	Line Up For Jesus
Author:	Haldor Lillenas
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Line up, line up for Jesus
Copyright:	Public Domain