Voran Mit Gott Jehova

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Voran mit Gott Jehova

Author: Ernest W. Shurtleff; Translator: Herbert Von Berge
Tune: LANCASHIRE (Smart)
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Representative Text

1 Voran mit Gott Jehova,
Und kühn hinaus ins Feld!
Auf kampfgeweitem Plane
Pflanzt siegend euer Zelt.
In Tagen stiller Rüstung
Wuchs Kraft und Mut und Treu’;
Und nun o großer König
Hör’ unser Kriegesschrei.

2 Führ’ du uns, bis der Sünde
Jedwede Fessel bricht
Und Heiligkeit auf ewig
Das Friedensamen spricht
Denn nicht mit Schwerterklirren
Und blut’gem Kriegeszeug
Im Tatendrang der Liebe
Kommt, Herr, dein Himmelreich.

3 So führ uns Gott Jehova,
Wie könnt uns bange grau’n
Wenn wir, wie lichten Morgen
Dein Gnadenantliß schau’n
Das Kreutzpanier erhoben,
Erleuchtet unsre Bahn
Die Krone harrt des Siegers
Voran, mit Gott voran!

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #13571

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Author: Ernest W. Shurtleff

Before studying at Andover, Ernest W. Shurtleff (Boston, MA, 1862; d. Paris, France, 1917) attended Harvard University. He served Congregational churches in Ventura, California; Old Plymouth, Massachusetts; and Minneapolis, Minnesota, before moving to Europe. In 1905 he established the American Church in Frankfurt, and in 1906 he moved to Paris, where he was involved in student ministry at the Academy Vitti. During World War I he and his wife were active in refugee relief work in Paris. Shurtleff wrote a number of books, including Poems (1883), Easter Gleams (1885), Song of Hope (1886), and Song on the Waters (1913). Bert Polman… Go to person page >

Translator: Herbert Von Berge

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Text Information

Text Information

First Line:	Voran mit Gott Jehova
Title:	Voran Mit Gott Jehova
English Title:	Lead on, O King eternal
Author:	Ernest W. Shurtleff
Translator:	Herbert Von Berge
Meter:	7.6.7.6 D
Language:	German
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Tune

LANCASHIRE (Smart)

Henry T. Smart (PHH 233) composed the tune in 1835 for use at a missions festival at Blackburn, Lancashire, England. For that festival, which celebrated the three-hundredth anniversary of the Reformation in England, the tune was set to Reginald Heber's (PHH 249) “From Greenland's Icy Mountains.”…

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