We Are Coming

We are coming, we are coming, We are soldiers of the Lord

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds (1897)
Tune: [We are coming, we are coming] (Fillmore)
Published in 3 hymnals

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Representative Text

1 We are coming, we are coming,
We are soldiers of the Lord;
We are coming, we are coming,
We are coming at His word.

Refrain:
We are soldiers of the Lord,
We are coming at His word;
We are coming, we are coming,
We are coming at His word.

2 We are coming, we are coming,
Coming in our early youth;
We are coming, we are coming,
In the name of God and truth. [Refrain]

3 We are coming, we are coming,
With our banners lifted high;
We are coming, we are coming,
Jesus calls, and we reply: [Refrain]

Jewels for Juniors, 1911 (Timeless Truths)

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds

Jessie Brown Pounds was born in Hiram, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland on 31 August 1861. She was not in good health when she was a child so she was taught at home. She began to write verses for the Cleveland newspapers and religious weeklies when she was fifteen. After an editor of a collection of her verses noted that some of them would be well suited for church or Sunday School hymns, J. H. Fillmore wrote to her asking her to write some hymns for a book he was publishing. She then regularly wrote hymns for Fillmore Brothers. She worked as an editor with Standard Publishing Company in Cincinnati from 1885 to 1896, when she married Rev. John E. Pounds, who at that time was a pastor of the Central Christian Church in Indianapolis. A memorab… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: We are coming, we are coming, We are soldiers of the Lord
Title: We Are Coming
Author: Jessie Brown Pounds (1897)
Meter: 8.7.8.7.7.7.8.7
Language: English
Refrain First Line: We are soldiers of the Lord
Copyright: Public Domain

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Timeless Truths #187

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