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Text:Onward, Children, Onward
Author:John H. Brammall
Tune:ST. GERTRUDE
Composer:Arthur Seymour Sullivan
Media:MIDI file

8765. Onward, Children, Onward

1 Onward, children, onward! Leave the paths of sin;
Hasten to the strait gate, strive to enter in;
None can knock unheeded, none can strive in vain,
For the Savior’s welcome all that seek obtain.

Refrain:
Onward, children, onward! is the call today;
Come with ready footsteps, and that call obey.

2 Onward, children, onward! In the narrow way.
Christ your Lord shall lead you safely day by day;
And with such a leader what have you to fear?
Satan may oppose you, but your king is near. [Refrain]

3 Onward, ever onward! Till you join the throng
Who in dazzling raiment sing the triumph song,
And to heav’nly music cry with one accord,
"Holy! Holy! Holy! Is our sovereign Lord." [Refrain]

Text Information
First Line: Onward, children, onward! Leave the paths of sin
Title: Onward, Children, Onward
Author: John H. Brammall
Refrain First Line: Onward, children, onward!
Meter: 11.11.11. D
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain
Notes: Written for the Wesleyan Sunday School Union, 1870, and first printed in the Union’s Whitsuntide fly-sheet of that year. In 1879, it was given anonymously in the Methodist Sunday School Hymn Book, number 283.
Tune Information
Name: ST. GERTRUDE
Composer: Arthur Seymour Sullivan
Meter: 11.11.11 D
Key: E♭ Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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