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[Christian, gird you for the coming fray]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: W. A. Post Incipit: 11123 21234 43322 Used With Text: Christian, Gird You

Author: Flora Kirkland Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Christian, gird you for the coming fray Refrain First Line: Seek to please the King who hath redeemed you Used With Tune: [Christian, gird you for the coming fray]

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Christian, Gird You

Author: Flora Kirkland Hymnal: Praise and Rejoicing #101 (1904) First Line: Christian, gird you for the coming fray Refrain First Line: Seek to please the King who hath redeemed you Languages: English Tune Title: [Christian, gird you for the coming fray]

Christian, Gird You

Author: Flora Kirkland Hymnal: Fairer than Day (Enlarged Edition) #130 (1903) First Line: Christian, gird you for the coming fray Refrain First Line: Seek to please the King who hath redeemed you Languages: English Tune Title: [Christian, gird you for the coming fray]

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Flora Kirkland

1862 - 1911 Author of "Christian, Gird You" in Praise and Rejoicing Flora Kirkland was born in 1862 in Kentucky, before moving to Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from school she became a public school teacher for the seventh grade. She was a member of Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church for which she wrote a number of hymns. She was very active in the Wallabout Bay Mission in that neighborhood of Brooklyn. Most of Wallabout Bay would be filled in to make way for the Brooklyn Navy Yard. She died 17 January 1911. Brooklyn Standard Union, 16 January 1911