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Battle Song of the Church

Author: Mary J. Helphingstine

Born: September 15, 1888, Kansas. Died: May 28, 1979, Orange County, Florida. Buried: East Lake Cemetery, Osceola, Florida. Pseudonym: Betty-Nell Holmstead. Helphingstine was living as a boarder in Eagle, Vinton County, Ohio, around 1910. Her works include: Freedom In a Sod House!, 1963 --www.hymntime.com/tch  Go to person page >

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First Line: The gates of hell cannot prevail
Title: Battle Song of the Church
Author: Mary J. Helphingstine (1936)
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Jerusalem, thou city of the free
Copyright: © 1936, by Gospel Trumpet Co., in "Hymnal Inter. Young People's Convention"

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