Forward Be Our Watchword

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Check out the complete list of all 6000+ hymns and 200+ solo classical piano music I have recorded: https://www.andrewremillard.com/compl... • Paypal: [email protected] • Patreon: / andrewremillard • GiveSendGo: https://www.givesendgo.com/AndrewRemi... • If you would like to learn more about my work on Christian Hymnody follow the link to my website. • • Forward! Be Our Watchword • Text by: Henry Alford, 1871 F S Barnes • Tune: unknown • Jehovah Witness hymn • 1. Forward! be our watchword, • Steps and voices joined; • Seek the things before us, • Not a look behind; • Burns the fiery pillar • At our army’s head; • Who shall dream of shrinking, • By our captain led? • Forward through the desert, • Through the toil and fight; • Jordan flows before us; Zion beams with light. • 2. Forward! When in childhood buds the infant mind; • All through youth and manhood not a thought behind; • Speed through realms of nature, climb the steps of grace; • Faint not, till in glory, gleams our Father’s face. • Forward, all the lifetime, climb from height to height, • Till the head be hoary, till the eve be light. • 3. Forward! flock of Jesus, salt of all the earth, • Till each yearning purpose • Spring to glorious birth: • Sick, they ask for healing; blind, they grope for day; • Pour upon the nations • Wisdom’s loving ray. • Forward, out of error, • Leave behind the night; • Forward through the darkness, • Forward into light! • 4. Glories upon glories • Hath our God prepared, • By the souls that love him • One day to be shared; • Eye hath not beheld them, • Ear hath never heard; • Nor of these hath uttered thought or speech a word; • Forward, marching eastward, where the heaven is bright, • Till the veil be lifted, till our faith be sight. • 5. Far o’er yon horizon rise the city towers • Where our God abideth; that fair home is ours: • Flash the streets with jasper, shine the gates with gold; • Flows the gladdening river shedding joys untold. • Thither, onward, thither, in the Spirit’s might; • Pilgrims to your country, forward into light! • 6. Into God’s high temple, onward as we press, • Beauty spreads around us, born of holiness; • Arch, and vault, and carving, lights of varied tone, • Softened words and holy, prayer and praise alone. • Every thought upraising to our city bright, • Where the tribes assemble round the throne of light. • 7. Naught that city needeth of these aisles of stone; • Where the Godhead dwelleth, temple there is none; • All the saints that ever in these courts have stood, • Are but babes, and feeding on the children’s food. • On through sign and token, stars amidst the night, • Forward through the darkness, forward into light. • 8. To th’eternal Father loudest anthems raise; • To the Son and Spirit echo songs of praise; • To the Lord of glory, blessed Three in One, • Be by men and angels endless honor done. • Weak are earthly praises, dull the songs of night: • Forward into triumph, forward into light! • SUBSCRIBE TO MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL: / @andrewremillard • FOLLOW ME ON SOCIAL MEDIA: • / andrew.remillard.1 • / andrewremillardpianist • / andrewremillard • HYMN PLAYLISTS: • Complete playlist of my hymn recording: • Hymns of the Christian Faith

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