{"slug": "soldiers-of-christ-arise", "title": "Soldiers of Christ, Arise", "first_line": "Soldiers of Christ, arise", "author": "charles-wesley", "author_date": "1749", "foot": "iambic", "meter": {"pattern": [6, 6, 8, 6], "doubled": true, "refrain": false, "alleluia": false, "irregular": false}, "topics": ["Christian Life", "Conflict and Victory", "Courage", "Consecration"], "scripture": ["Ephesians 6:10-18", "1 Corinthians 15:57", "Romans 8:37"], "provenance": {"layer": "text", "source": "methodist-hymnal-1905", "source_kind": "hand_encoded", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "Charles Wesley (1707-1788), \"The Whole Armour of God\" (Eph. 6:10-18), from Hymns and Sacred Poems (London, 1749), a poem of sixteen short-metre stanzas. Transcribed from The Methodist Hymnal (New York: Eaton & Mains; Cincinnati: Jennings & Graham, 1905), hymn 382 on page 268, headed \"DIADEMATA  S. M. D. \u2014 George J. Elvey\" and signed \"Charles Wesley\". That page prints exactly these three eight-line (double short metre) stanzas over the DIADEMATA music, so the pairing of Wesley's short-metre poem into S.M.D. stanzas is the 1905 editors' printed act and not an editorial choice made here. Wesley's own stanza numbering is given by Hymn Studies (New York: Hunt & Eaton, 1897), which prints the same lines in eight-line parts and records that the \"From strength to strength go on\" stanza is Wesley's sixteenth, verbatim. Public domain: author d. 1788, and the 1905 printing read for this record is itself pre-1931. Scan: archive.org/details/methodi00meth, leaf n279 = printed page 268.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}}, "stanzas": {"1": {"syllabified": "Sol -- diers of Christ, a -- rise, And put your ar -- mor on, Strong in the strength which God sup -- plies Through his e -- ter -- nal Son; Strong in the Lord of hosts, And in his might -- y power, Who in the strength of Je -- sus trusts Is more than con -- quer -- or.", "prose": ["Soldiers of Christ, arise,", "And put your armor on,", "Strong in the strength which God supplies", "Through his eternal Son;", "Strong in the Lord of hosts,", "And in his mighty power,", "Who in the strength of Jesus trusts", "Is more than conqueror."]}, "2": {"syllabified": "Stand, then, in his great might, With all his strength en -- dued; But take, to arm you for the fight, The pan -- o -- ply of God: That, hav -- ing all things done, And all your con -- flicts passed, Ye may o'er -- come through Christ a -- lone, And stand en -- tire at last.", "prose": ["Stand, then, in his great might,", "With all his strength endued;", "But take, to arm you for the fight,", "The panoply of God:", "That, having all things done,", "And all your conflicts passed,", "Ye may o'ercome through Christ alone,", "And stand entire at last."]}, "3": {"syllabified": "From strength to strength go on, Wres -- tle, and fight, and pray; Tread all the pow'rs of dark -- ness down, And win the well -- fought day: Still let the Spir -- it cry, In all his sol -- diers, \"Come,\" Till Christ the Lord de -- scend from high, And take the con -- qu'rors home.", "prose": ["From strength to strength go on,", "Wrestle, and fight, and pray;", "Tread all the pow'rs of darkness down,", "And win the well-fought day:", "Still let the Spirit cry,", "In all his soldiers, \"Come,\"", "Till Christ the Lord descend from high,", "And take the conqu'rors home."]}}, "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}