The Trumpet Sounds

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O conqering host, your leader calls

Author: Julia H. Johnston
Tune: [O conqering host, your leader calls]
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1 O conq’ring host, your leader calls,
On list’ning ears the message falls;
The hour is ripe and grace abounds,
Go forward now, the trumpet sounds.

Refrain:
The trumpet sounds,
The call rings out,
Lift up with joy, the triumph shout,
The trumpet sounds,
It summons you
In Jesus’ name to dare and do.

2 The ranks of evil gather fast,
This golden day will soon be past;
Let not your faith and hope grow dim,
O loyal souls, be strong in Him. [Refrain]

3 Oh, ne’er before as in this day
Were such opposers in array;
But God is near to help and guide,
Stand on the Lord Jehovah’s side. [Refrain]

4 His bugles never sound retreat,
Go forth in faith your God to meet;
When life is o’er and vict’ry won,
You then shall hear your Lord’s “Well done.” [Refrain]

Source: The Gospel Message Choir #50

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Author: Julia H. Johnston

Julia Harriet Johnston, who was born on Jan. 21, 1849, at Salineville, OH, in Columbiana County. Her father was a minister and he mother was a poet. She began writing when she was nine years old but really started writing verse in high school. She lived in Peoria, Ill. 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 >

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First Line:	O conqering host, your leader calls
Title:	The Trumpet Sounds
Author:	Julia H. Johnston
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	The trumpet sounds
Publication Date:	1929
Copyright:	This text may still be under copyright because it was published in 1929.