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"Onward, Christian Soldiers" was written in 1865 and uses New Testament military metaphors of Christians as soldiers. [1] In the 1980s there was a growing movement against the notion of Christian military references, leading to some churches in the United States dropping it from their hymn books. [2]
"Onward, Christian Soldiers" is a 19th-century English hymn. The words were written by Sabine Baring-Gould in 1865, and the music was composed by Arthur Sullivan in 1871. Sullivan named the tune "St Gertrude," after the wife of his friend Ernest Clay Ker Seymer, at whose country home he composed the tune.
The simple lyrics consist of the phrase "Lloyd George knew my father/Father knew Lloyd George" [1] [2] sung to the tune of "Onward, Christian Soldiers". [A] In the song, the two lines referring to Lloyd George (LG) are repeated incessantly, until boredom sets in. [ 3 ] There are no lyrics other than those two lines.
Endeavouer's Marching Song: Christian soldiers all, hear our Leader's call: F.J. Crosby: 1103: Onward, O Junior Endeav'rers: F.J. Crosby: 1106: Oh, help me tell the story: Edward Shiras: 1108: Our Christian Band: With cheerful songs and hymns of praise: Lyman G. Cuyler* 1112: Work and Pray: Let us work and pray together: Julia Sterling* 1118 ...
Sabine Baring-Gould was born in the parish of St Sidwell, Exeter, on 28 January 1834. [3] He was the eldest son and heir of Edward Baring-Gould (1804–1872), lord of the manor of Lew Trenchard, a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant of Devon, formerly a lieutenant in the Madras Light Cavalry (resigned 1830), by his first wife, Sophia Charlotte Bond, daughter of Admiral Francis Godolphin ...
His notable hymn, "Forward Through the Ages", was an anthem of the Social Gospel movement. Written while he served the church in California , it replaced the militaristic imagery of Onward Christian Soldiers with a broader evocation of spiritual mission and unity.
The ChordPro (also known as Chord) format is a text-based markup language for representing chord charts by describing the position of chords in relation to the song's lyrics. ChordPro also provides markup to denote song sections (e.g., verse, chorus, bridge), song metadata (e.g., title, tempo, key), and generic annotations (i.e., notes to the ...
Ephesians 6:10–18 [8] discusses faith, righteousness, and other elements of Christianity as the armour of God, and this imagery is replicated by John Bunyan in The Pilgrim's Progress, [9] and by many other Christian writers. Related imagery appears in hymns such as "Soldiers of Christ, Arise" and "Onward, Christian Soldiers". [10]