Repton Pilgrims Database — Centenary Dinner 2021
Pilgrims page with images from the archive source.
Dinner Photographs
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Centenary Dinner Speeches Video
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Jon Batty (Surrey CC, Gloucestershire CC and Northants CC) also took part in the Q & A session.
Modern Version of Bunyan's Pilgrim Hymn
This is the modern version of Bunyan's Pilgrim Hymn to which Richard Hutton alluded in his speech, including the three verses.
He who would valiant be
'gainst all disaster,
Let him in constancy
follow the Master.
There's no discouragement
Shall make him once relent
His first avowed intent
To be a pilgrim.
Who so beset him round
With dismal stories,
Do but themselves confound
His strength the more is.
No foes shall stay his might;
Though he with giants fight,
He will make good his right
To be a pilgrim.
Since, Lord, Thou dost defend
Us with Thy Spirit,
We know we at the end
Shall life inherit.
Then fancies flee away!
I'll fear not what men say,
I'll labour night and day
To be a pilgrim.