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[1] [2] The Salvation Army adopted the hymn as its favoured processional. [3] The piece became Sullivan's most popular hymn. [1] The hymn's theme is taken from references in the New Testament to the Christian being a soldier for Christ, for example II Timothy 2:3 : "Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ."
In 1780, it was published as a hymn in John Wesley's "A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People Called Methodists" with 12 verses. Since 1847, the hymn is usually only performed with 3 verses; [4] the most recent British Methodist hymn book, "Singing the Faith", [7] some of the additional verses are included as a separate hymn with the ...
Stanzas 1,2,3, and 6 appear in the LDS Church's hymnal as hymn verses 1 to 4. However, Hymns of the Saints, the Community of Christ hymnal from 1981 to 2013, did not include the sixth stanza. Community of Christ Sings, the current Community of Christ hymnal, includes the Bolton–Pratt revision of this stanza as the third of four verses:
Following this, Wesley published it in the Hymns and Sacred Poems hymnal of 1739, initially with eleven verses of four lines each. [3] [4] The hymn was subsequently published in the hymnal A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists, [5] and in 1754, it appeared in Harmonia Sacra, a hymnal compiled by Thomas Butts. [6] [7]
"Palms of Victory" has been published in several "standard" hymnals, between 1900 and 1966: the Methodist Cokesbury Worship Hymnal of 1923 (hymn no. 142, as "Deliverance Will Come"), [8] the Mennonite Church and Sunday-school Hymnal of 1902 (hymn no. 132), [9] the Nazarene Glorious Gospel Hymns of 1931 (hymn no. 132, as "The Bloodwashed Pilgrim"), [10] the African Methodist Episcopal hymnal of ...
"The Lily of the Valley" ("I've Found a Friend in Jesus") is a Christian hymn written by William Charles Fry (1837–1882) in London for the Salvation Army. [1] Ira D. Sankey arranged the words to the music of " The Little Old Log Cabin In The Lane " composed by Will Hays.
Jesus Christ Is Risen Today" is a Christian hymn. It was initially written in the 14th century as a Bohemian Latin hymn titled " Surrexit Christus hodie ". It is an Easter hymn referring to the Resurrection of Jesus and based on Matthew 28:6, Acts 2:32, 1 Peter 3:18 and Revelation 1:17-18.
A musical motif referencing the first line of "Come, Come Ye Saints" is used at the end of official broadcasts and videos released by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The hymn also appears in a Protestant hymnal, the United Church of Christ's New Century Hymnal, with alternate lyrics for the LDS-oriented third verse written by ...