The Church — Ministry and Missions

Onward speed thy conquering flight

No. 1060
Metre 7s & 5s. D.
Tune MESSAGE.
Words Anon.
Music F. E. Belden.
Key A-flat major
Singing key A♭ major
Time 2/2
3 stanzas

Words

Onward speed thy conquering flight,Angel, onward speed;Shed abroad thy radiant light,Bid the shades recede;Tread the idols in the dust,Heathen fanes destroy,Spread the gospel's holy trust,Spread the gospel's joy.

Onward speed thy conquering flight,Angel, onward haste;Quickly on each mountain's hightBe thy standard placed;Let thy blissful tidings floatFar o'er vales and hills,Till the sweetly-echoing noteEvery bosom thrills.

Onward speed thy conquering flight,Angel, onward fly;Long has been the reign of night;Bring the morning nigh;'T is to thee the heathen liftTheir imploring wail;Bear them Heaven's holy gift,Ere their courage fail.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: running head «THE CHURCH—MINISTRY AND MISSIONS.»; hymn number «1060» (large), tune name «MESSAGE. 7s & 5s. D.» centred over the music (condensed display capitals; «D.» in small capitals), «F. E. BELDEN.» at the right (capitals and small capitals); printed vertically in the right margin beside the music, reading downward, «Copyrighted 1886» (system 1) «by F. E. Belden.» (system 2). Stanza 1 is interlinear, between the staves, one line per system, with «1.» before «On-ward»: system 1 = verse lines 1–3, system 2 = lines 4–6; lines 7–8 are printed in italics as a second line, «D. S.—Spread the gos-pel's ho - ly trust,» under the right half of system 1 and «Spread the gos-pel's joy.» under the first two bars of system 2, and are sung there after the «D. S.» at the end of the music (back to the segno, end at «Fine.»). Stanza 1 below is assembled in the order sung. «conquering» is printed whole under its two notes. Stanzas 2–3 are printed as text in the left column below the music, numbered «2», «3» without periods (written «2.», «3.» here, as in the other deliveries of this book), followed by «Anon.» in italics, right-aligned. Lines 2, 4, 6 and 8 of each stanza are indented. The print sets a thin space before «;» («speed ;», «re - cede ;», «haste ;», «placed ;», «fly ;», «night ;», «nigh ;», «wail ;»); it is closed up here. The curly apostrophes are written straight («gospel's», «mountain's», «o'er», «'T is», «Heaven's»). «hight» (= height), «'T is» (with a space) and the other spellings, punctuation and capitals are the print's.