Onward, Christian Soldiers
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onward-christian-soldiers-162-701880
title:
Onward, Christian Soldiers
text:
"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 Salvation Army adopted the hymn as its favoured processional. The piece became Sullivan's most popular hymn. The hymn's theme is taken from references in the New Testament to the Christian
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19th-century English hymn
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onward,_Christian_Soldiers
date created:
2006-08-26T21:51:02Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T19:42:52Z
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