Who Wrote Forward Be Our Watchword Hymn?
Dean Henry Alford stood forth as one of the great ecclesiastical scholars of his generation. Twenty years of scholarly labor he devoted to his edition of the Greek New Testament and accomplished besides a great![]() |
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Forward! be our watchword,
Steps and voices joined.
It was sung by the Canterbury choirs at their festival, but before that day had come the Dean had passed on to the higher life, pressing
Forward through the darkness,
Forward into light!
Forward Be Our Watchword Hymn Lyrics
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;
Heaven’s Kingdom waits us,
Forward into light.
2 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 or word;
Forward, marching forward
Where the kingdom’s bright,
Till the veil be lifted,
Till our faith be sight!
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