Stand, soldier of the Cross. Bishop E. H. Bickersteth. [Adult Baptism.] Written for the first edition of his Hymnal Companion 1870, No. 291, in 6 stanzas of 4 lines. It was also given in his Two Brothers, &c, 1871, p. 238. On its adoption by the Society for Promoting Church Knowledge Church Hymns, 1871, stanzas ii., iii., were slightly altered by the author.
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)