Who Is on the Lord's Side (II)

DESCRIPTION: "Who is on the Lord’s side? Who will serve the King? Who will be His helpers, other lives to bring? Who will leave the world’s side? Who will face the foe? ... We are on the Lord’s side—Savior, we are Thine!"
AUTHOR: Words: Frances Ridley Havergal (1836-1879) l /Music: C. Luise Reichardt (source: Julian)
EARLIEST DATE: 1877 (Home Missions, according to Julian)
KEYWORDS: religious
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, p. 109, "Who is on the Lord's side?" (1 fragment)
ADDITIONAL: Robert J. Morgan, _Then Sings My Soul, Book 2: 150 of the World's Greatest Hymn Stories_, Nelson, 2004, pp. 172-173, "Who Is on the Lord's Side?" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #25521
NOTES [124 words]: The phrase "Who is on the Lord's side" comes from Exodus 32:26, though I'm not sure it's a context I'd like to quote -- Moses is encouraging the Levites to consecrate themselves by killing their relatives!
There is another song with this title, from Black tradition, beginning "Let me tell you what is nat'rally the fact." It is indexed as "Who Is on the Lord's Side (I)."
According to John Julian, editor, A Dictionary of Hymnology, 1892; second edition 1907 (I use the 1957 Dover edition in two volumes), p. 498 (which lists more than fifty hymns by Havergal, most of which I've never heard of, although she did write the relatively well-known text "Take My Life and Let It Be"), this was originally published in Home Missions 1877. - RBW
Last updated in version 6.5
File: KSUC190D

Go to the Ballad Search form
Go to the Ballad Index Song List

Go to the Ballad Index Instructions
Go to the Ballad Index Bibliography or Discography