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[Onward, Christian soldier]

Appears in 5 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. Tenney Incipit: 33333 12255 31233 Used With Text: Christian Warfare
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Onward, Little Soldiers

Author: Horace E. Kimball Appears in 1 hymnal Used With Tune: [Onward, little soldiers]
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Christian Warfare

Author: Horace E. Kimball Appears in 6 hymnals First Line: Onward, Christian soldier Refrain First Line: Onward, Christian soldier Lyrics: 1 Onward, Christian soldier, Onward to the fight, Hold the banner firmly, Battle for the right! Hold the cross for Jesus, As your banner high, Never must you falter, Never must you fly. Chorus: Onward, Christian soldier, Onward to the fight, Hold the banner firmly, Battle for the right; Hold the banner firmly, Hold the banner firmly, Hold the banner firmly, Battle for the right. 2 Jesus Christ, your Saviour, Says that you must win, If ye do His bidding, Look for strength to Him; Clad in heav’nly armor, You’ll o’ercome the foe, Triumph o’er the tempter, Jesus tells you so. [Chorus] 3 Then when warfare’s over, When the fight is done, When the foes are vanquish’d, When the victory’s won, Laying down your armor, Clad in snowy white, You shall reign with Jesus In eternal light. [Chorus] Used With Tune: [Onward, Christian soldier]
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Onward, Christian Soldiers

Author: Horace E. Kimball Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #12791 Lyrics: 1 Onward, Christian soldiers, Onward to the fight; Hold the banner firmly, Battle for the right! Hold the cross for Jesus, As your banner high; Never must you falter, Never must you fly. Refrain: Onward, Christian soldier, Onward to the fight, Hold the banner firmly, Battle for the right; Hold the banner firmly, Hold the banner firmly, Hold the banner firmly, Battle for the right. 2 Jesus Christ, your Savior, Says that you must win If you do His bidding, Look for strength to Him; Clad in heav’nly armor, You’ll o’ercome the foe, Triumph o’er the tempter, Jesus tells you so. [Refrain] 3 Then when warfare’s over, When the fight is done, When the foes are vanquished, When the victory’s won, Laying down your armor, Clad in showy white, You shall reign with Jesus, In eternal light. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [Onward, Christian soldiers]
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Onward, Christian Soldiers

Author: Horace E. Kimball Hymnal: Good News #52 (1876) Languages: English Tune Title: [Onward, Christian soldiers]
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Onward, Christian Soldiers

Author: Horace E. Kimball Hymnal: Garlands of Praise #72 (1876) Topics: Anniversary; Missionary Languages: English Tune Title: [Onward, Christian soldiers]
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J. H. Tenney

1840 - 1918 Person Name: John Harrison Tenney Composer of "[Onward, Christian soldiers]" in The Cyber Hymnal John Harrison Tenney, 1840-1918 Born: No­vem­ber 22, 1840, Row­ley, Mass­a­chu­setts. Born just af­ter the pre­si­den­tial cam­paign of "Tip­pe­ca­noe and Ty­ler, too," Ten­ney was named af­ter Amer­i­can pre­si­dent Will­iam Hen­ry Har­ri­son. A dea­con in the Con­gre­ga­tion­al Church in Line­brook, Mass­a­chu­setts, he ed­it­ed or was as­so­ci­ate ed­it­or of over 30 books, and con­trib­ut­ed to hun­dreds more. His works in­clude: Amer­i­can Male Choir Temperance Jew­els, with Eli­sha Hoff­man (Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts: Ol­iv­er Dit­son & Com­pa­ny, 1879) Bells of Vic­to­ry, with Eli­sha Hoff­man (Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts: Oliv­er Dit­son & Com­pa­ny, 1888) Gems of Gos­pel Song Golden Sun­beams Sharon’s Dewy Rose Songs of Faith Shining Light Songs of Joy Sparkling and Bright Spiritual Songs, Nos. 1 and 2 Sweet Fields of Eden The Bea­con Light The Sing­ing School Ban­ner The An­them Of­fer­ing The Amer­i­can An­them Book The Crown of Praise Sources-- Hall, pp. 219-22 Music-- Asilomar Bogotá Beyond the Swell­ing Flood Cancún Come to Je­sus Ever Will I Pray Hallowed Hour of Pray­er Jesus Is Pass­ing This Way Jubilate! My An­chor Is Hold­ing Nothing Be­tween Onward Christ­ian Sol­diers Sabbath Bell San Fran­cis­co We’ll Ne­ver Say Good­bye Where Will You Spend Eter­ni­ty? --www.hymntime.com/tch
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Horace E. Kimball

1839 - 1901 Author of "Onward, Christian Soldiers" in The Cyber Hymnal Horace Esterbrook Kimball was born in Clyde, New York, Sept. 28th, 1839, but was raised in Orange, New Jersey. He served in the 4th New York Heavy Artillery during the Civil War, and commanded a company of the 10th U.S. Colored Troops Heavy Artillery in the garrison forces in New Orleans until 1867. After the war Kimball worked as a printer in Chicago, and rose to be chief editor of Brainard's Musical World (Cleveland, Ohio) for a brief time. He returned to New Jersey by 1880 and died there Nov. 10, 1901. His New method for the reed organ: a complete progressive and practical system of instruction (Brainard's Sons, 1872) was widely popular. He was baptized into the New Jerusalem Church (Swedenborgian) in Chicago in 1868 by J. R. Hibberd. Sources: FamilySearch, "The Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (www.familysearch.org : accessed 22 March 2025), Horace Esterbrook Kimball (LH6D-DGL), Details. https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/details/LH6D-DGL Davenport, Robert Ralsey. The Davenport Genealogy: History and Genealogy of the Ancestors and Descendants of the Rev. John Davenport, Founder of New Haven, Connecticut, and of Yale College. Cambridge, Mass.: R.R. Davenport, 1982. Journal of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Illinois Association of the New Jerusalem Church (Chicago, Oct. 23rd-25th, 1868). Kimball, Horace E. Kimball's New Method for the Reed Organ. Cleveland: Brainard's Sons, 1872. https://liberty.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p17184coll14/id/16246/rec/25 --David Russell Hamrick
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