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Striving Onward, Pressing Forward

Author: J. H. Horstmann Meter: 8.5.8.5.7.7.8.5 Appears in 6 hymnals Topics: Forward Lyrics: 1 Striving onward, pressing forward, Life divine to gain, We will ever make endeavor Until we attain; What detains we’ll cast aside, By that promise to abide: Who endureth, life secureth, And the prize shall gain. 2 While contending, and withstanding For the truth and right; Draw us nearer, show us clearer, Lord, Thy Spirit’s might; Let Thy word its strength impart To each sad and yearning heart; Praise abounding shall be sounding, At Thy throne of light. 3 In the sorrow which the morrow May around us roll, Hold us ever, leave us never, Save, O save the soul! Through temptation’s daily strife, Through the vanities of life, Lead us onward, forward, upward, To our glorious goal. Used With Tune: STRIVING

Forward through the ages

Author: Frederick L. Hosmer Meter: 6.5.6.5 D with refrain Appears in 83 hymnals Topics: Forward Used With Tune: ONWARD

The World Must Be Taken for Jesus

Author: Alice Jean Cleator Appears in 12 hymnals Topics: Forward Refrain First Line: Enlist, enlist, enlist in His army today Used With Tune: [The world must be taken for Jesus]

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ST. GERTRUDE

Appears in 1,007 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Arthur S. Sullivan Topics: Forward Incipit: 55555 65221 23135 Used With Text: Onward, Christian soldiers

[Watchers called to work for Jesus, gird your souls and haste away]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Powell G. Fithian Topics: Forward Incipit: 12323 45321 22123 Used With Text: Watchers Called to Work for Jesus

[Go forth, in the strength of the Master]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Walter G. Tyler Topics: Forward Incipit: 51111 67153 55555 Used With Text: Go Forth

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"Forward!" be our watchword

Author: Dean Henry Alford, 1810-1871 Hymnal: Methodist Hymn and Tune Book #383 (1917) Topics: Forward; Forward Lyrics: 1 "Forward!" be our watchword, Steps and voices joined; Seek the things before us, Not a look behind; Burns the fiery pillar At our army's head; Who shall dream of shrinking, By our Captain led? Forward through the desert, Through the toil and fight; Jordan flows before us, Zion beams with light. 2 Forward, flock of Jesus, Salt of all the earth, Till each yearning purpose Spring to glorious birth: Sick, they ask for healing, Blind, they grope for day; Pour upon the nations Wisdom's loving ray. Forward, out of error, Leave behind the night; Forward through the darkness, Forward into light! 3 Far o'er yon horizon Rise the city towers, Where our God abideth; That fair home is ours: Flash the streets with jasper, Shine the gates with gold; Flows the gladdening river Shedding joys untold; Thither, onward thither In the Spirit's might; Pilgrims to your country, Forward into light! 4 To the Eternal Father Loudest anthems raise: To the Son and Spirit Echo songs of praise; To the Lord of Glory, Blessed Three in One, Be by men and angels Endless honour done. Weak are earthly praises, Dull the songs of night; Forward into triumph, Forward into light! Languages: English Tune Title: ROSMORE

Go Forward, Christian Soldier!

Author: Lawrence Tuttiett Hymnal: World-Wide Hosannas #36 (1904) Topics: Forward First Line: Go forward, Christian soldier Refrain First Line: Go forward, Christian soldier Languages: English Tune Title: [Go forward, Christian soldier]

Forward, Forward All

Author: Julia H. Johnston Hymnal: World-Wide Hosannas #105 (1904) Topics: Forward First Line: We come this happy, happy day Refrain First Line: Hark, forward all, it is the call Languages: English Tune Title: [We come this happy, happy day]

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George Duffield

1818 - 1888 Topics: Forward Author of "Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus!" in World-Wide Hosannas Duffield, George, Jr., D.D., son of the Rev. Dr. Duffield, a Presbyterian Minister, was born at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Sept. 12, 1818, and graduated at Yale College, and at the Union Theological Seminary, New York. From 1840 to 1847 he was a Presbyterian Pastor at Brooklyn; 1847 to 1852, at Bloomfield, New Jersey; 1852 to 1861, at Philadelphia; 1861 to 1865, at Adrian, Michigan; 1865 to 1869, at Galesburg, Illinois; 1869, at Saginaw City, Michigan; and from 1869 at Ann Arbor and Lansing, Michigan. His hymns include;— 1. Blessed Saviour, Thee I love. Jesus only. One of four hymns contributed by him to Darius E. Jones's Temple Melodies, 1851. It is in 6 stanzas of 6 lines. In Dr. Hatfield's Church Hymnbook it is given in 3 stanzas. The remaining three hymns of the same date are:— 2. Parted for some anxious days. Family Hymn. 3. Praise to our heavenly Father, God. Family Union. 4. Slowly in sadness and in tears. Burial. 5. Stand up, stand up for Jesus. Soldiers of the Cross. The origin of this hymn is given in Lyra Sac. Americana, 1868, p. 298, as follows:— "I caught its inspiration from the dying words of that noble young clergyman, Rev. Dudley Atkins Tyng, rector of the Epiphany Church, Philadelphia, who died about 1854. His last words were, ‘Tell them to stand up for Jesus: now let us sing a hymn.' As he had been much persecuted in those pro-slavery days for his persistent course in pleading the cause of the oppressed, it was thought that these words had a peculiar significance in his mind; as if he had said, ‘Stand up for Jesus in the person of the downtrodden slave.' (Luke v. 18.)" Dr. Duffield gave it, in 1858, in manuscript to his Sunday School Superintendent, who published it on a small handbill for the children. In 1858 it was included in The Psalmist, in 6 stanzas of 8 lines. It was repeated in several collections and in Lyra Sac. Amer., 1868, from whence it passed, sometimes in an abbreviated form, into many English collections. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] - John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) See also in: Hymn Writers of the Church

S. Baring-Gould

1834 - 1924 Person Name: Sabine Baring-Gould Topics: Forward Author of "Onward, Christian soldiers" in Elmhurst Hymnal Baring-Gould, Sabine, M.A., eldest son of Mr. Edward Baring-Gould, of Lew Trenchard, Devon, b. at Exeter, Jan. 28, 1834, and educated at Clare College, Cambridge, B.A. 1857, M.A. 1860. Taking Holy Orders in 1864, he held the curacy of Horbury, near Wakefield, until 1867, when he was preferred to the incumbency of Dalton, Yorks. In 1871 he became rector of East Mersea, Essex, and in 1881 rector of Lew Trenchard, Devon. His works are numerous, the most important of which are, Lives of the Saints, 15 vols., 1872-77; Curious Myths of the Middle Ages, 2 series, 1866-68; The Origin and Development of Religious Belief, 2 vols., 1869-1870; and various volumes of sermons. His hymns, original and translated, appeared in the Church Times; Hymns Ancient & Modern, 1868 and 1875; The People's Hymnal, 1867, and other collections, the most popular being "Onward, Christian soldiers," "Daily, daily sing the praises," the translation "Through the night of doubt and sorrow," and the exquisite Easter hymn, "On the Resurrection Morning." His latest effort in hymnology is the publication of original Church Songs, 1884, of which two series have been already issued. In the Sacristy for Nov. 1871, he also contributed nine carols to an article on "The Noels and Carols of French Flanders.” These have been partially transferred to Chope's and Staniforth's Carol Books, and also to his Church Songs. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ================== Baring-Gould, S., p. 114, i. Other hymns in common use are:— 1. Forward! said the Prophet. Processional. Appeared in the New Mitre Hymnal, 1874. 2. My Lord, in glory reigning. Christ in Glory. In Mrs. Brock's Children's Hymn Book, 1881. 3. Now severed is Jordan. Processional. Appeared in the S. Mary, Aberdeen, Hymnal, 1866, the People's Hymnal, 1867, &c. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Carrie Ellis Breck

1855 - 1934 Person Name: Mrs. Frank A. Breck Topics: Forward Author of "Herald the King" in World-Wide Hosannas Carrie Ellis Breck was born 22 January 1855 in Vermont and raised in a Christian home. She later moved to Vineland, New Jersy, and then to Portland, Oregon. She wrote verse and prose for religious and household publications, In 1884 she married Frank A. Breck. She has written between fourteen and fifteen hundred hymns. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) See also Mrs. Frank A. Breck.

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