Sabine Baring-Gould

The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould (28 January 1834 – 2 January 1924) was an English hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar. His bibliography lists more than 1240 separate publications, and continues to grow. He is remembered particularly as a writer of hymns, the best-known being "Onward, Christian Soldiers" and "Now the Day Is Over".

Sourced

• Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war,
  with the cross of Jesus going on before.
  Christ, the royal Master, leads against the foe;
  forward into battle see his banners go!
  • Lyrics to Onward, Christian Soldiers (1871).

• Jesus, give the weary
  Calm and sweet repose.
  With Thy tend'rest blessing
  May our eyelids close.
  • Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 614.

External links

• Biography and hymns of Sabine Baring-Gould at Hymnary.org
• 'Songs of the West' - Sabine Baring-Gould and the Folk Songs of South-West England
• Curious Myths of the Middle Ages, by Sabine Baring-Gould
• Works by Sabine Baring-Gould at Project Gutenberg
• Sabine Baring-Gould Appreciation Society
• Biography from Devon Discovering Devon by the BBC