Onward, onward, slow and steady

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Onward, onward, slow and steady

Author: H. W. Payson
Tune: RATHBUN
Published in 4 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	Toccata on In the Cross of Christ I Glor…

Author: H. W. Payson

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First Line:	Onward, onward, slow and steady
Author:	H. W. Payson
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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RATHBUN

This story is associated with the writing of RATHBUN: One Sunday in 1849 Ithamar Conkey (b. Shutesbury, MA, 1815; d. Elizabeth, NJ, 1867) walked out of the morning service at Central Baptist Church, Norwich, Connecticut, where he was choir director and organist, frustrated because only one soprano f…

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