From all Thy saints in warfare
From all thy saints in warfare. Horatio Bolton Nelson* (1823-1913).
Published in Nelson’s Hymns for Saints’ Days, and other Hymns, by a Layman (1864). It was modelled on J.S.B. Monsell*’s ‘Ye saints! In blest communion’. It consisted of a general opening, individual verses for the feasts of particular saints and a general ending. A revised version, with additional verses contributed by friends, was published in The Sarum Hymnal (1868). It provided for seventeen festivals. The hymn was included in Church Hymns (1871), with an additional verse for All Saints. It appears to have been more extensively used in the USA than in Britain. It was included in the Episcopal Hymnal from 1871 to 1916,...
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