yourself enflamed. Use exercise of body; yet such as is without peril to your bones or joints.
Above all things tell no untruth; no, not in trifles. The custom of it is naughty…For there cannot be a greater reproach to a gentleman than to be accounted a liar. Study and endeavour yourself to be virtuously occupied. So shall you make such a habit of well-doing in you as you shall not know how to do evil, though you would.
Your Loving father, so long as you fear God.
Sir Henry Sidney (1529-86)
The work of John Monsell, Rector of St Nicholas in Guildford, this hymn has remained one of the most popular rallying cries of the Christian church, particularly associated with the Salvation Army. Monsell himself literally gave his life in the service of his calling, dying in an accident while inspecting repairs to the roof of his church. He was a great believer in providing rousing tunes for public worship and criticized the reserve of much church music. His other hymns include ‘0 worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness’.
Fight the good fight with all thy might!
Christ is thy strength and Christ thy right; Lay hold on life, and it shall be Thy joy and crown eternally.
Run the straight race through God’s good grace,
Lift up thine eyes, and seek His face; Life with its way before us lies; Christ is the path, and Christ the prize.
Cast care aside, lean on thy guide;
His boundless mercy will provide; Trust, and thy trusting soul shall prove Christ is its life, and Christ its love.
Faint not nor fear, His arms are near;
He changeth not, and thou art dear; Only believe, and thou shalt see That Christ is all in all to thee.
John Samuel Bewley Monsell (1811-75)
A popular choice for All Hallows, but also heard at other times throughout the year, this hymn was the work of William Walsham How, Bishop of East London and later of Wakefield. How was particularly renowned for not resting from his labours, working hard for his parishioners in London’s East End and being nicknamed the ‘Omnibus Bishop’ because he travelled everywhere by bus. The hymn is sung to Ralph Vaughan Williams’ ‘Sine Nomine’.
For all the saints who from their labours rest,
Who Thee by faith before the world confessed, Thy name, O Jesu, be for ever blest. Alleluia! Alleluia!
Thou wast their rock, their fortress, and their might,
Thou, Lord, their Captain in the well-fought fight; Thou in the darkness drear their one true light. Alleluia! Alleluia!
O may Thy soldiers, faithful, true, and bold,
Fight as the saints who nobly fought of old, And win, with them, the victor’s crown of gold. Alleluia! Alleluia!
O blest communion! Fellowship divine!
We feebly struggle, they in glory shine; Yet all are one in Thee, for all are Thine. Alleluia! Alleluia!
And when the strife is fierce, the warfare long,
Steals on the ear the distant triumph-song, And hearts are brave again, and arms are strong. Alleluia! Alleluia!
The golden evening brightens in the west;
Soon, soon to faithful warriors cometh rest: Sweet is the calm of paradise the blest. Alleluia! Alleluia!
But lo! there breaks a yet more glorious day;
The saints triumphant rise in bright array: The King of glory passes on His way. Alleluia! Alleluia!
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