Stand To!

This is a command constantly heard in the trenches. When the men hear this command they must be awake and alert; they must leave everything they are doing, and take their rifles and their helmets, and be ready to attack or to repel an attack. Stand to! though the storm of battle bursts around you, and the hurricane of shot and shell make a pathway for the feet of death. Stand to! stand bravely! If death comes, die at the post of duty, Christian soldier, your Captain bids you stand to! “Watch and pray.” “Resist the devil and he will flee from you.” Hold fast that which God has committed to you until the day when He will require it at your hands. Stand to! in life and live for Him. Tell your comrades of His love and lead them to Him.
“Get thee, watchman, to the rampart!
Gird thee, warrior, with thy sword!
Be ye strong as ye remember
That amidst you is the Lord.
Vain the leaguer! our foundations
Are upon the holy hills,
And the love of the Eternal
All the stately structure fills.”