Onward Christian Soldiers
Backgrounder: Onward, Christian
Soldiers is a 19th-century English
hymn. The words were written
by Sabine Baring-Gould in 1865.
Gould recounts: Whitmonday is
a great day for school festivals in
Yorkshire, and one Whitmonday
it was arranged that our school
should join its forces with that of
a neighboring village. I wanted
the children to sing when
marching from one village to
the other, but couldn’t think of
anything quite suitable. So, I sat
up at night resolved to write
something myself and “Onward,
Christian Soldiers” was the result.
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