Forget them not, O Christ, who stand

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Forget them not, O Christ, who stand

Author: Margaret E. M. Sangster
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1 Forget them not, O Christ, who stand
Thy vanguard in the distant land.

2 In flood, in flame, in dark, in dread,
Sustain, we pray, each lifted head.

3 Exalt them over every fear,
In peril come Thyself more near.

4 Thine is the work they strive to do,
Their foes so many, they so few.

5 Be with Thine own, Thy loved, who stand,
Christ's vanguard in the storm-swept land.

Amen.

Source: The Christian Hymnary. Bks. 1-4 #540

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Author: Margaret E. M. Sangster

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First Line:	Forget them not, O Christ, who stand
Author:	Margaret E. M. Sangster
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

1 Samuel 12:23
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TRURO is an anonymous tune, first published in Thomas Williams's Psalmodia Evangelica, (second vol., 1789) as a setting for Isaac Watts' "Now to the Lord a noble song." Virtually nothing is known about this eighteenth-century British editor of the two-volume Psalmodia Evangelica, a collection of thr…

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