I
chose ‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic’ as the Christian Song of the Month, as
it is the 152nd anniversary of the beginning of the American Civil
War. Let us not forget the fallen soldiers. I got the information from
Wikipedia.
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Cover
of the 1862 sheet music for "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"
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INTERNET SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_Hymn_of_the_Republic
"The Battle Hymn of the Republic"
is a hymn by American writer Julia Ward Howe using the music from the song
"John Brown's Body". Howe's more famous lyrics were written in
November 1861 and first published in The Atlantic Monthly in February
1862. The song links the judgment of the wicked at the end of time (New
Testament, Rev. 19) with the American Civil War. Since that time it has become
an extremely popular and well-known American patriotic song.
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As
originally published 1862 in The Atlantic Monthly
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Lyrics:
Mine
eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:
He
is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He
hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:
His
truth is marching on.
(Chorus)
Glory,
glory, hallelujah!
Glory,
glory, hallelujah!
Glory,
glory, hallelujah!
His
truth is marching on.
I
have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps,
They
have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I
can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps:
His
truth is marching on.
(Chorus)
Glory,
glory, hallelujah!
Glory,
glory, hallelujah!
Glory,
glory, hallelujah!
His
truth is marching on.
I
have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel:
"As
ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal;
Let
the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel,
his
truth is marching on."
(Chorus)
Glory,
glory, hallelujah!
Glory,
glory, hallelujah!
Glory,
glory, hallelujah!
his
truth is marching on.
He
has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He
is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat:
Oh,
be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet!
Our
God is marching on.
(Chorus)
Glory,
glory, hallelujah!
Glory,
glory, hallelujah!
Glory,
glory, hallelujah!
Our
God is marching on.
In
the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With
a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me:
As
He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While
God is marching on.
(Chorus)
Glory,
glory, hallelujah!
Glory,
glory, hallelujah!
Glory,
glory, hallelujah!
Our
God is marching on.
He
is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave,
He
is Wisdom to the mighty, He is Succour to the brave,
So
the world shall be His footstool, and the soul of Time His slave,
Our
God is marching on.
(Chorus)
Glory,
glory, hallelujah!
Glory,
glory, hallelujah!
Glory,
glory, hallelujah!
Our
God is marching on.
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Battle
of Cold Harbor, 1864
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