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Onward 'Gainst the Foe

Onward 'gainst the foe, Christ, your Savior, calls

Author: Katharyn Bacon
Tune: [Onward 'gainst the foe, Christ, your Savior, calls]
Published in 3 hymnals

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Author: Katharyn Bacon

Katharyn Bacon was born in 1884 and lived in the hills of Tennessee. She liked books, flowers, garden and being close to nature. She was most likely married to George W. Bacon since a lot of her hymns appear in hymnals he edited. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Onward 'gainst the foe, Christ, your Savior, calls
Title: Onward 'Gainst the Foe
Author: Katharyn Bacon
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Onward 'gainst the mighty foe
Publication Date: 1918
Copyright: Public Domain

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Glad News No. 2 #1

Music that Wins #d88

Page Scan

Truth and Hope #192

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