“Onward Christian Soldiers”

Cultural  

1. A popular Christian hymn with music by Arthur Sullivan. The refrain is:

   Onward Christian soldiers,

   Marching as to war,

   With the Cross of Jesus

   Going on before.

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Example Sentences

The Metropolitan Community Church choir in flowing robes singing “Onward Christian Soldiers.”

From Los Angeles Times

“My mother beat me to the meter of ‘Onward,/ Christian Soldiers,” she writes in the poem “I Do Not Know If It Is True, but I Think.”

From Washington Post

Defiance was nothing new to him - his first act of rebellion was as a young Jewish boy refusing to sing Onward Christian Soldiers at school in Philadelphia.

From BBC

There were poised and clear-voiced readings by several Bush granddaughters, and beautiful renditions of patriotic and inspirational music: “The Star-Spangled Banner,” “America the Beautiful,” “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” “Onward, Christian Soldiers.”

From Washington Post

Christians, evidently, need to start taking “Onward, Christian Soldiers” more literally.

From Washington Post