Come, brothers in arms, and our pledges renew,

We are sworn for the right, we'll be manful and true; Who strike for their land must be dauntless and strong, Who strive for their God, must be marching along.

CHORUS.

Marching along! we are marching along,

With warm hearts and true, we are marching along; 'Neath our Banner of Stars, we're united and strong, And our own Forty-seventh is marching along.

A SOLDIER'S GENERAL PRAYER.

O LORD GOD OF HOSTS! who hast all the creatures, in heaven and earth, ever ready to fight Thy battles, and to execute Thy commands! Thou didst not sow any seeds of enmity in our nature; but didst create man in Thine own image, endued with all the principles of love and dispositions to peace. It is from our lusts alone, that wars and fightings have come amongst us. We first, by transgression, made our selves enemies to Thee; and have therefore learned to cherish enmity in our hearts against our fellow creatures. I lament the sad necessity that exists for learning and exercising the art of war. But, now that I am in a line which binds to the performance

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of military duties, instruct me, O Lord, and enable me to behave myself as a truly Christian soldier ought to do. And also to enlist under Thy banners, and become a good soldier of Jesus Christ. Let me war a good warfare, and never cease to fight against those enemies that war against my soul. And that I may have peace with Thee my God, let me have no peace with my sins; nor ever take part with those that rebel against Thee.

Though the sword is in my hand, let the peace of God rule in my heart. And though I am a soldier, let me not be a man of blood, delighting in war, but a ready servant of my country, a faithful instrument for our common defence and safety, and a dutiful subject to the powers that be, for the Lord's sake. O strengthen my heart and hands for the service to which I am called. And make me successful and victorious through Thy blessing and power from on high. Keep me, if it please Thee, from the calamities to which I am exposed, or overrule them for my spiritual and eternal good; that wounds in my body may be for the health of my soul, and temporal death prove to me the gate of everlasting life.

Help me, O Thou, my Leader and Commander, Thou great Captain of my salvation, that I may go on, as Christ's faithful soldier, conquering and to conquer, triumphing in Thy praise, for ever and ever. Amen.

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WHEN the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing.-Deut. xxiii. 9.

Only be thou valiant for me and fight the Lord's battles.-1 Sam. xviii. 17.

Be of good courage, and let us play the men for Jur people, and for the cities of our God.-2 Sam. x. 12.

For the battle is the Lord's, and He will give you into our hands.-1 Sam. xvii. 47.

Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might.-Ephes. vi. 10.

God hath power to help and to cast down.— 2 Chron. xxv. 8.

I will go in the strength of the Lord God.— Ps. lxxi. 16.

Plead my cause, O Lord, with them that strive with me; fight against them that fight against me.P8. xxxi. 1.

For the Lord your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.— Deut. xx. 4.

But the Lord your God ye shall fear; and He

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shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.-2 Kings xvii. 39.

If it be so, our God, whom we serve, is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnance; and He will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.-Dan. iii. 17.

Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of naught.-Isa. xli. 12.

When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the Lord thy God is with thee.-Deut. xx. 1.

Fear him not; for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand.-Deut. iii. 2.

With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the Lord our God, to help us, and to fight our battles.— 2 Chron. xxxii. 8.

Shouldst thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the Lord ?-2 Chron. xix. 2.

Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate Thee? and am I not grieved with those that rise up against Thee? I hate them with a perfect hatred; I count them mine enemies.-Ps. cxxxix. 21, 22.

Lord, it is nothing with Thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power:

help us, O Lord our God; for we rest on Thee, and in Thy name we go against this multitude.-2 Chron. xiv. 11.

O children of Israel, fight ye not against the Lord God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.— 2 Chron. xiii. 12.

But as for us, the Lord is our God, and we have not forsaken him.-2 Chron. xiii. 10.

Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will show you to-day.-Exod. xiv. 13.

O our God, wilt not Thou judge them?-2 Chron. xx. 12.

Their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.-Deut. xxxii. 35.

A SOLDIER'S PRAYER

ON THE EVE OF BATTLE.

O GOD! I desire to come to the footstool of Thy throne in this solemn hour, rejoicing in the assurance that "the Lord God omnipotent reigneth," and that the "shields of the earth" are only Thine.

I beseech Thee mercifully to strengthen me for every trying duty. Cover my head in the day of