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Author: Eleanor Allen Schroll Appears in 6 hymnals Refrain First Line: Will you then be true? Lyrics: 1 In the battle’s din, With the hosts of sin, Will you bear His banner thru? When the foe is strong, When the strife is long, Can the Master count on you? Refrain: Will you then be true? Can He count on you? In the cause of right, Will you bravely fight? Can He count, Can He count on you? 2 When the fields await, When the work is great, When the laborers are few, When the easy way, Leads the crowd astray, Can the Master count on you? [Refrain] 3 Should He call today, Would you gladly say Here am I Thy work to do? Then thru good or ill Will you do His will? Can the Master count on you? [Refrain] Used With Tune: CAN HE COUNT ON YOU

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[In the battle's din]

Appears in 5 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. Fillmore Incipit: 55671 71123 77123 Used With Text: In the battle's din

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In the Battle's Din

Author: Eleanor Allen Schroll Hymnal: Hymns for Today #238 (1920) Refrain First Line: Will you then be true? Lyrics: 1 In the battle’s din, With the hosts of sin, Will you bear His banner thru? When the foe is strong, When the strife is long, Can the Master count on you? Refrain: Will you then be true? Can He count on you? In the cause of right, Will you bravely fight? Can He count, Can He count on you? 2 When the fields await, When the work is great, When the laborers are few, When the easy way, Leads the crowd astray, Can the Master count on you? [Refrain] 3 Should He call today, Would you gladly say Here am I Thy work to do? Then thru good or ill Will you do His will? Can the Master count on you? [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: CAN HE COUNT ON YOU

In the battle's din

Author: Eleanor Allen Schroll Hymnal: A Hymnal for Joyous Youth #194 (1927) Refrain First Line: Will you then be true? Languages: English Tune Title: [In the battle's din]

In the Battle's Din

Author: Eleanor Allen Schroll Hymnal: The Junior Hymnal #78 (1923) Refrain First Line: Will you then be true? Languages: English Tune Title: CAN HE COUNT ON YOU

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Eleanor Allen Schroll

1878 - 1966 Author of "Can He Count On You?" in Quartets and Choruses for Men Born: 1878, Newport, Kentucky. Died: January 8, 1966, Daytona Beach, Florida. Buried: Southgate, Kentucky. Lyrics-- Beautiful Garden of Prayer, The He Lives --www.hymntime.com/bio

J. H. Fillmore

1849 - 1936 Composer of "[In the battle's din]" in Quartets and Choruses for Men James Henry Fillmore USA 1849-1936. Born at Cincinnati, OH, he helped support his family by running his father's singing school. He married Annie Eliza McKrell in 1880, and they had five children. After his father's death he and his brothers, Charles and Frederick, founded the Fillmore Brothers Music House in Cincinnati, specializing in publishing religious music. He was also an author, composer, and editor of music, composing hymn tunes, anthems, and cantatas, as well as publishing 20+ Christian songbooks and hymnals. He issued a monthly periodical “The music messsenger”, typically putting in his own hymns before publishing them in hymnbooks. Jessie Brown Pounds, also a hymnist, contributed song lyrics to the Fillmore Music House for 30 years, and many tunes were composed for her lyrics. He was instrumental in the prohibition and temperance efforts of the day. His wife died in 1913, and he took a world tour trip with single daughter, Fred (a church singer), in the early 1920s. He died in Cincinnati. His son, Henry, became a bandmaster/composer. John Perry