God alone can help

With a heart brave and ready

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman
Tune: [With a heart brave and ready]
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 With a heart brave and ready,
With a hand strong and steady,
In the name of our Jehovah we will press the battle on;
With a soul true and loyal,
With an aim high and royal,
Let us follow where he leads until the victory is won.

Refrain:
For ‘tis God alone can help us to fight the battle thro’;
It is only he, the Lord, who wondrous things can do;
God alone can defend us, he alone pow’r can send us,
So we trust in his strong arm to fight the battle thro’.

2 With an earnest endeavor,
With a faith flat’ring never,
In the strength of our Jehovah we will challenge sin and wrong;
If the Lord go before us,
And his banner e o’er us,
We will follow till thro’ him we sing the glad triumphant song. [Refrain]

3 There are wrongs to be righted
And, in purpose united,
We should march in ranks unbroken to the earnest battle field;
God, his honor defending,
God, his help to us sending,
Will empow’r us in the conflict till the foe is forced to yield. [Refrain]

Source: United Praise: for use in Sunday Schools, Young People's Societies and other Church Services #34

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman

Elisha Hoffman (1839-1929) after graduating from Union Seminary in Pennsylvania was ordained in 1868. As a minister he was appointed to the circuit in Napoleon, Ohio in 1872. He worked with the Evangelical Association's publishing arm in Cleveland for eleven years. He served in many chapels and churches in Cleveland and in Grafton in the 1880s, among them Bethel Home for Sailors and Seamen, Chestnut Ridge Union Chapel, Grace Congregational Church and Rockport Congregational Church. In his lifetime he wrote more than 2,000 gospel songs including"Leaning on the everlasting arms" (1894). The fifty song books he edited include Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 and The Evergreen, 1873. Mary Louise VanDyke… Go to person page >

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First Line: With a heart brave and ready
Title: God alone can help
Author: Elisha A. Hoffman
Refrain First Line: For 'tis God alone can help us
Copyright: Public Domain

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