Rally around the cross

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Ye soldiers of the kingdom

Author: Johnson Oatman
Tune: [Ye soldiers of the kingdom on the battle-fields of sin]
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 Ye soldiers of the kingdom on the battle-fields of sin,
Each time you press the battle you the victory should win;
Do not spread out like billows as they madly foam and toss,
But concentrate your efforts as you rally around the cross.

Refrain:
Then rally around the cross, rally around the cross;
You’ll never meet disaster if you rally around the cross.
Then rally around the cross, rally around the cross;
You’ll grow more like the Master if you rally around the cross

2 Stand fast so that the Captain may depend each day on you,
Each day enduring hardships as His soldiers good and true;
Esteeming ease and pleasure as but tinsel and but dross;
Unfurl the Gospel banner as you rally around the cross. [Refrain]

3 On every field of battle where the sabers clash and ring,
The fighting is the hardest wheresoever stands the King;
E’er watch the royal banner while defending it from loss;
You cannot be defeated if you rally around the cross. [Refrain]

Source: Rodeheaver's Gospel Songs for church, Sunday Schools and evangelistic services #112

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Author: Johnson Oatman

Johnson Oatman, Jr., son of Johnson and Rachel Ann Oatman, was born near Medford, N. J., April 21, 1856. His father was an excellent singer, and it always delighted the son to sit by his side and hear him sing the songs of the church. Outside of the usual time spent in the public schools, Mr. Oatman received his education at Herbert's Academy, Princetown, N. J., and the New Jersey Collegiate Institute, Bordentown, N. J. At the age of nineteen he joined the M.E. Church, and a few years later he was granted a license to preach the Gospel, and still later he was regularly ordained by Bishop Merrill. However, Mr. Oatman only serves as a local preacher. For many years he was engaged with his father in the mercantile business at Lumberton… Go to person page >

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