The Victory Is Nigh

March on, March on, ye soldiers of the cross

Author: Bertha Mae Lillenas
Tune: [March on, march on, ye soldiers of the cross]
Published in 2 hymnals

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Author: Bertha Mae Lillenas

Lillenas, Bertha Mae (nee Wilson). (?--1945). First wife of Haldor Lillenas, mother of their two children. Ordained elder in the Church of the Nazarene. Evangelist, singer, and composer, as well as artist at the piano. Deets Pacific Bible College, Los Angeles (later Pasadena College). With her husband, pastored churches at Lompoc and Pomona, California; Auburn, Illinois; Peniel, Texas; Redlands, Calif.; and Indianapolis, Indiana. She often preached. She had a gift for writing songs easy to sing on powerful gospel themes. Since she was a contralto, she wrote most numbers in a low key. The text of "Jesus Took My Burden" (Johnson Oatman) was sent to Haldor Lillenas to be set to music, but the musical setting he wrote visited virtually all p… Go to person page >

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First Line:	March on, March on, ye soldiers of the cross
Title:	The Victory Is Nigh
Author:	Bertha Mae Lillenas
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	March on, march on, O church of God
Copyright:	© 1934 by Homer A. Rodeheaver