Onward, Christian Soldiers

Text: Sabine Baring-Gould Music: Arthur Sullivan • Onward, Christian Soldiers Page 175

Verse 1 of 4 • On-ward, Chris-tian sol-diers! • March-ing as to war;

Verse 1 of 4 • With the word of Je-sus, • go-ing on be-fore;

Verse 1 of 4 • Christ, the roy-al Mas-ter, • leads a-gainst the foe;

Verse 1 of 4 • For-ward in-to bat-tle, • see His ban-ners go!

Verse 1 of 4 • On-ward, Chris-tian sol-diers, • march-ing as to war;

Verse 1 of 4 • With the word of Je-sus, • go-ing on be-fore.

Verse 2 of 4 • Like a might-y ar-my, • moves the Church of God;

Verse 2 of 4 • Broth-ers, we are tread-ing, • where the saints have trod;

Verse 2 of 4 • We are not di-vid-ed, • all one bod-y we;

Verse 2 of 4 • One in hope and doc-trine; • one in char-i-ty.

Verse 3 of 4 • Crowns and thrones may per-ish, • king-doms rise and wane;

Verse 3 of 4 • But the Church of Je-sus • con-stant will re-main;

Verse 3 of 4 • Gates of hell can nev-er • 'gainst that Church pre-vail;

Verse 3 of 4 • We have Christ's own prom-ise, • which can nev-er fail.

Verse 4 of 4 • On-ward, then, ye peo-ple! • Join our hap-py throng;

Verse 4 of 4 • Blend with ours your voic-es, • in the tri-umph song;

Verse 4 of 4 • Glo-ry, laud and hon-or, • un-to Christ the King;

Verse 4 of 4 • This through count-less a-ges, • men and an-gels sing.

For the Beauty of the Earth Text: Folliot S. Pierpont Music: Conrad Kocher Page 178

For the beau-ty of the earth,for the glo-ry of the skies, • Verse 1 of 5

For the love which from our birtho-ver and a-round us lies; • Verse 1 of 5

Lord of all, to Thee we raisethis our hymn of grate-ful praise. • Verse 1 of 5

For the beau-ty of each hourof the day and of the night, • Verse 2 of 5

Hill and vale, and tree and flow’r,sun and moon, and stars of light; • Verse 2 of 5

For the joy of hu-man love,broth-er, sis-ter, par-ent, child, • Verse 3 of 5

Friends on earth and Thee a-bove,for all gen-tle thoughts and mild; • Verse 3 of 5

For each per-fect gift of Thineto our race so free-ly giv'n; • Verse 4 of 5

Grac-es, hu-man and di-vine,flow’rs of earth and buds of heav'n; • Verse 4 of 5

For Thy Church that ev-er-morelift-eth ho-ly hands a-bove, • Verse 5 of 5

Of-f’ring up on ev-’ry shoreher pure sac-ri-fice of love; • Verse 5 of 5

The Heavens God’s Glory Do Declare Text: Psalm 19:1-8 Music: Dwight Armstrong Page 11

The heav'ns God's glo-ry do de-clare,The skies His hand-i-works teach; • Verse 1 of 3

Day af-terday their speech pours forth, And knowl-edge, night af-ternight. • Verse 1 of 3

There is no speech nor spo-ken word;Their voice is nev-er heard; • Verse 1 of 3

And yet their voice spreads to all the earth, Their words to the ends of the world. • Verse 1 of 3

The heav’ns a tent for the sun He made, Which comes forth like a bride-groom, • Verse 2 of 3

Leav-ing his cham-ber glow-ing bright, To run his course with joy. • Verse 2 of 3

From heav-en's end its ris-ing is,Its cir-cuit to its ends; • Verse 2 of 3

Onward, Christian Soldiers