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“Like a mighty army moves the church of God” may be the blueprint in a familiar hymn, but it has not always been observed. In fact, someone wrote a parody of this particular verse of “Onward, Christian Soldiers,” and it runs like this:

Like a halting caravan

Moves the church of Christ;

We are feebly faltering

Toward our timid tryst.

We are all divided,

Many bodies we,

Kept apart by doctrine

And lack of charity.

Careful, Christian pilgrims

Walk in doubt and fear,

With the cross of Jesus

Bringing up the rear.

source J. Vernon McGee

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