Keep Step in the March

Keep step in the march for the truth and right

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds
Tune: [Keep step in the march for the truth and right] (Gabriel)
Published in 10 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 Keep step in the march for the truth and right-
Keep step in the march, keep step!
Be strong in the strength of the Lord, our might-
Keep step in the march, keep step!

Chorus:
Keep step! keep step!
(Keep step for the right, by day and by night,)
Keep step in the march, keep step! (keep step!)
Turn never aside, but with zeal and with pride
keep step in the march, keep step!

2 Keep step at the front of the moving line-
Keep step in the march, keep step!
Keep step where the cross is the blazing sign,-
Keep step in the march, keep step! [Chorus]

3 Keep step with a tread that is firm and true-
Keep step in the march, keep step!
There's need in the ranks of the Lord for you-
Keep step in the march, keep step! [Chorus]



Source: The New Praiseworthy: for the Church and Sunday School #165

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds

Jessie Brown Pounds was born in Hiram, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland on 31 August 1861. She was not in good health when she was a child so she was taught at home. She began to write verses for the Cleveland newspapers and religious weeklies when she was fifteen. After an editor of a collection of her verses noted that some of them would be well suited for church or Sunday School hymns, J. H. Fillmore wrote to her asking her to write some hymns for a book he was publishing. She then regularly wrote hymns for Fillmore Brothers. She worked as an editor with Standard Publishing Company in Cincinnati from 1885 to 1896, when she married Rev. John E. Pounds, who at that time was a pastor of the Central Christian Church in Indianapolis. A memorab… Go to person page >

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First Line: Keep step in the march for the truth and right
Title: Keep Step in the March
Author: Jessie Brown Pounds
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

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