Marching Onward

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Marching onward in the name of Jesus, Carry forth the banner of the cross

Author: Carrie Ellis Breck
Tune: [Marching onward in the name of Jesus] (Tullar)
Published in 1 hymnal

Author: Carrie Ellis Breck

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. Go to person page >

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First Line:	Marching onward in the name of Jesus, Carry forth the banner of the cross
Title:	Marching Onward
Author:	Carrie Ellis Breck
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Sing, sing the name of Jesus!
Copyright:	Public Domain