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BRUCE'S
ADDRESS.
(Spiritualized.)
7,
7,
7,
5,
7,
7, 7,
5.
"Thou
therefore
endure
hardness,
as
a
good
soldier
of
Jesus."-2
TIM.
2
:
8.
Key
of
C
Major.
REV.
JOHN
PIERPONT,
1820.
Dover
Selections,
page
152.
Alto
by
S.
M.
DENSON,
1911.
1.
Sol
-
diers
of
the
cross,
a
-
rise!
Lo,
your
Cap-tain
from
the
skies,
Hold
-
ing
forth
the
glit-t'ring
prize,
Calls
to
vic
-
to
-
ry.
2.
Who
the
cause
of
Christ
would
yield
?
Who
would
leave
the
bat
-
tle
-
field
?
Who
would
cast
a
-
way
his
shield
?-Let
him
base
-
ly
go.
3.
By
the
mer-cies
of
our
God,
By
Em
-
man
-
uel's
streaming
blood,
When
a
-
lone
for
us
he
stood,
Ne'er
give
up
the
strife:
Fear
not,
though
the
bat
-
tle
low'r,
Firm
-
ly
stand
the
try
-
ing
hour,
Stand
the
temp
-
ter's
ut
-
most
pow'r,
Spurn
his
slav
-
er
-
y.
Who
for
Zi
-
on's
King
will
stand
?
Who
will
join
the
faith
-
ful
band
?
Let
him
come
with
heart
and
hand,
Let
him
face
the
foe.
Ev
-
er
to
the
lat
-
est
breath,
Hark
to
what
your
Cap
-
tain
saith:
"Be
thou
faith
-
ful
un
-
to
death;
Take
the
crown
of
life."
Rev.
John
Pierpont,
the
author
of
the
music
of
"Bruce's
Address,"
was
born
in
Connecticut,
1785.
Graduated
at
Yale
College,
1804.
Studied
law,
and
after
practicing
for
a
while,
took
a
course
in
Theology
and
became
a
Unitarian
Minister;
he
was
Pastor
of
Hollis
Church,
Boston,
Mass.,
thirty-six
years.
He
wrote
poems;
traveled
in
the
old
world
extensively.
His
poem,
"The
Yankee
Boy,"
has
been
quoted
all
over
the
world.
He
died
in
Bedford,
Mass.,
1866.
The
original
from
which
the
tune
was
taken
was
set
to-one
of
Robert
Burns'
poems:
Title,
"Stand
the
Grounds
Your
Own,
My
Brave."
William
Walker
set
the
tune
to
sacred
music
in
1835.
See
"Southern
Harmony"
page
132,
also
"Christian
Harmony,"
page
313, 1866.
S.
M.
Denson
added
alto
1911.