My Captain Never Lost a Battle

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Rouse ye! O ye freemen! For a foe is in your nation

Author: C. Austin Miles
Tune: [Rouse ye! O ye freemen]
Published in 3 hymnals

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1 Rouse ye! O ye freemen! For a foe is in your nation,
Sparing not your men and maidens on its downward way;
Rally to the standard of the Captain of Salvation,
Who never lost a battle; He calls for you today.

Refrain:
My Captain never lost a battle,
Anywhere, anywhere;
His army He is ever leading
On to certain victory;
All the host of the world defying,
With the cross-barred banner flying,
Join the mighty army, crying
Victory! Victory!

2 Hear ye! Through the darkness comes the sob of children weeping,
Robbed of health and hope and life, their heritage of love;
Waken from your slumber, ‘tis no time for sinful sleeping,
A Voice to you is calling! The Voice of God above. [Refrain]

3 Forward! God is with us, we are on His pow’r relying,
We shall gain the victory, our cause we know is just;
Forward! Never falter! All the host of sin defying,
Our God ne’er lost a battle, in him we put our trust. [Refrain]

Source: Jubilate : A Modern Sunday-School Hymnal #154

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Author: C. Austin Miles

Charles Austin Miles USA 1868-1946. Born at Lakehurst, NJ, he attended the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and the University of PA. He became a pharmacist. He married Bertha H Haagen, and they had two sons: Charles and Russell. In 1892 he abandoned his pharmacy career and began writing gospel songs. At first he furnished compositions to the Hall-Mack Publishing Company, but soon became editor and manager, where he worked for 37 years. He felt he was serving God better in the gospel song writing business, than as a pharmacist. He published the following song books: “New songs of the gospel” (1900), “The service of praise” (1900), “The voice of praise” (1904), “The tribute of song” (1904), “New songs of the gospel… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Rouse ye! O ye freemen! For a foe is in your nation
Title:	My Captain Never Lost a Battle
Author:	C. Austin Miles
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	My captain never lost a battle
Publication Date:	1914
Copyright:	Public Domain