{"id":3624,"date":"2021-06-06T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/?p=3624"},"modified":"2026-06-06T22:28:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T22:28:27","slug":"who-is-on-the-lords-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/?p=3624","title":{"rendered":"Who is on the Lord&#8217;s side?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/purechocolate.org.uk\/music_other\/The_King_of_glory_for_export.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who is on the Lord&#8217;s side? Who will serve the King?<br>Who will be his helpers, other lives to bring?<br>Who will leave the world&#8217;s side? Who will face the foe?<br>Who is on the Lord&#8217;s side? Who for him will go?<br>By thy call of mercy, by thy grace divine,<br>We are on the Lord&#8217;s side: Saviour, we are thine!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not for weight of glory, nor for crown and palm,<br>Enter we the army, raise the warrior psalm;<br>But for love that claimeth lives for whom he died:<br>He whom Jesus saveth marches on his side.<br>By thy love constraining, by thy grace divine,<br>We are on the Lord&#8217;s side: Saviour, we are thine!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jesus, thou hast bought us, not with gold or gem,<br>But with thine own lifeblood, for thy diadem;<br>With thy blessing filling each who comes to thee,<br>Thou hast made us willing, thou hast made us free.<br>By thy great redemption, by thy grace divine,<br>We are on the Lord&#8217;s side: Saviour, we are thine!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fierce may be the conflict, strong may be the foe,<br>But the King&#8217;s own army none can overthrow;<br>&#8216;Round his standard ranging, vict&#8217;ry is secure,<br>For his truth unchanging makes the triumph sure.<br>Joyfully enlisting, by thy grace divine,<br>We are on the Lord&#8217;s side: Saviour, we are thine!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chosen to be soldiers, in an alien land,<br>Chosen, called, and faithful, for our Captain&#8217;s band;<br>In the service royal, let us not grow cold,<br>Let us be right loyal, noble, true and bold.<br>Master, thou wilt keep us, by thy grace divine,<br>Always on the Lord&#8217;s side: Saviour, always thine!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Words: Frances Ridley Havergal (1836-79) <br>Music: Someone will say that it bears some similarity with, a passing resemblance maybe to, a song by Mavis Ford, in which case Coco is flattered and she perhaps annoyed. Coco finally got around to putting pen to paper for a new tune for Who is on the Lord&#8217;s side. Any similarity between this and an other tune may be coincidental, deliberate or unintentional in the manner of Brahms first Symphony and many other hymns whose first lines appear to have some resemblance to each other.<br>The copyright of this arrangement of the music is held by&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:hymns@purechocolate.org.uk\">Stuart Moffatt (\u00a9 1999-2021)<\/a>.<br>The midi file was produced using&nbsp;<a href=\"javascript:extLink(18,0,0)\">Noteworthy Composer<\/a>.<br>The mp3 was produced using&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.myriad-online.com\/\">Myriad<\/a>&nbsp;software.<br>Also on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpdl.org\/wiki\/index.php\/Who_is_on_the_Lord%27s_side%3F_(Stuart_Moffatt)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CPDL<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/nwc-scriptorium.org\/db\/moff_lords_side.id\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NWC Scriptorium<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Who is on the Lord&#8217;s side<\/strong> is usually sung to at least two different tunes, but obviously not at the same time in the same place that would be anti-fermionic not to say cacophonous: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Rachie<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/purechocolate.org.uk\/music_other\/The_King_Rachie_for_export.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Music: Rachie &#8211; Caradog Roberts (1878-1935) and adapted here by Coco<br>The copyright of this arrangement of the music is held by\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:hymns@purechocolate.org.uk\">Stuart Moffatt (\u00a9 1999-2021)<\/a>.<br>On <a href=\"https:\/\/nwc-scriptorium.org\/db\/rob_lords.id\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NWC Scriptorium<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Armageddon <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/purechocolate.org.uk\/music_other\/The_King_Armageddon_for_export.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Music: Armageddon &#8211; C. Luise Reichardt, arr. by John Goss, 1871 and adapted here by Coco<br>The copyright of this arrangement of the music is held by\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:hymns@purechocolate.org.uk\">Stuart Moffatt (\u00a9 1999-2021)<\/a>.<br>On <a href=\"https:\/\/nwc-scriptorium.org\/db\/goss_lord.id\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NWC Scriptorium<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These words of Mavis Ford fit quite nicely onto Armageddon and Rachie, do you not agree?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You are the King of glory<br>You are the Prince of Peace<br>You are the Lord of heaven and earth<br>You&#8217;re the Son of righteousness<br>Angels bow down before you<br>Worship and adore, for<br>You have the words of eternal life<br>You are Jesus Christ the Lord<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hosanna to the son of David<br>Hosanna to the King of kings<br>Glory in the highest heaven for<br>Jesus the Messiah reigns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who is on the Lord&#8217;s side? Who will serve the King?Who will be his helpers, other lives to bring?Who will leave the world&#8217;s side? Who will face the foe?Who is on the Lord&#8217;s side? Who for him will go?By thy call of mercy, by thy grace divine,We are on the Lord&#8217;s side: Saviour, we are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,16,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-music","category-poetry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3624"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3636,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624\/revisions\/3636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}