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Author: John Mason Neale (1818-1866) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 91 hymnals Scripture: Amos 5:8 Lyrics: 1 Creator of the stars of night, your people's everlasting light, O Christ, redeemer of us all, we pray you, hear us when we call. 2 When earth drew on to darkest night, you came, but not in splendour bright, not as a king, but as the child of Mary, Virgin mother mild. 3 At your great name, majestic now, all knees must bend, all hearts must bow: all things on earth with one accord join those in heaven to call you Lord. 4 To God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit, Three in One, praise, honour, might, and glory be from age to age eternally. Amen. Topics: Life in Christ Christ Incarnate - Promise of the Messiah; Mary Used With Tune: CONDITOR ALME Text Sources: Latin hymn, 9th century

A Hymn of Human Rights

Author: Fred Kaan Appears in 58 hymnals Scripture: Amos 5:24 First Line: For the healing of the nations Lyrics: 1 For the healing of the nations, Lord, we pray with one accord; For a just and equal sharing Of the things that earth affords. To a life of love in action Help us rise and pledge our word. To a life of love in action Help us rise and pledge our word. 2 Lead us, Father, into freedom, From despair your world release; That redeemed from war and hatred Men may come and go in peace. Show us how through care and goodness Fear will die and hope increase. Show us how through care and goodness Fear will die and hope increase. 3 All that kills abundant living, Let it from the earth be banned; Pride of status, race, or schooling, Dogmas keeping man from man. In our common quest for justice May we hallow life's brief span. In our common quest for justice May we hallow life's brief span. 4 You, Creator God, have written Your great name on all mankind; For our growing in your likeness Bring the life of Christ to mind; That by our response and service Earth its destiny may find. That by our response and service Earth its destiny may find. Topics: The Christian Life Justice and Human Rights; God Creation of God; Responses to God Commitment; The Christian Life Aspiration and Hope; The Christian Life Comfort and Healing; The Christian Life Discipleship, Service, and Mission; The Christian Life Guidance; The Christian Life Liberation and Justice; The Holy Spirit and The Church Unity and Fellowship Used With Tune: KONG-EUI

Let Justice Flow like Streams

Author: Jane Parker Huber Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 5 hymnals Scripture: Amos 5:24 Topics: Society Used With Tune: ST. THOMAS

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CONDITOR ALME

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 97 hymnals Scripture: Amos 5:8 Tune Sources: Mode IV Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 31355 64556 45432 Used With Text: Creator of the stars of night

ST. THOMAS

Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 977 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Aaron Williams, 1731-1776 Scripture: Amos 5:24 Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 51132 12345 43432 Used With Text: Let Justice Flow like Streams

[Take from me your holy feasts]

Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Marty Haugen, b. 1950 Scripture: Amos 5:21-24 Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 51117 66557 12217 Used With Text: Let Justice Roll Like a River

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Come, Holy Spirit, Heavenly Dove

Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Hymnal: Common Praise (1998) #640 (1998) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Scripture: Amos 5:18-24 Topics: Pentecost; The Holy Spirit Languages: English Tune Title: HARESFIELD

Hail to the Lord's Anointed

Author: James Montgomery, 1771-1854 Hymnal: Singing the Faith #228 (2011) Meter: 7.6.7.6 D with refrain Scripture: Amos 5:24 Topics: The Promised Christ: Advent; The Revealed Christ: Epiphany, Presentation and Baptism Languages: English Tune Title: CRÜGER (HERRNHUT)

Lamp of Our Feet, Whereby We Trace

Author: Bernard Barton (1784-1849) Hymnal: Common Praise (1998) #477 (1998) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Scripture: Amos 5:18-24 Topics: Bread; Exodus; Learning; Pilgrimage; Scripture; Christian Life Languages: English Tune Title: GRÄFENBURG (NUN DANKET ALL)

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John L. Bell

b. 1949 Person Name: John L. Bell (b. 1949) Scripture: Amos 5:7 Author of "Inspired by love and anger" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.) John Bell (b. 1949) was born in the Scottish town of Kilmarnock in Ayrshire, intending to be a music teacher when he felt the call to the ministry. But in frustration with his classes, he did volunteer work in a deprived neighborhood in London for a time and also served for two years as an associate pastor at the English Reformed Church in Amsterdam. After graduating he worked for five years as a youth pastor for the Church of Scotland, serving a large region that included about 500 churches. He then took a similar position with the Iona Community, and with his colleague Graham Maule, began to broaden the youth ministry to focus on renewal of the church’s worship. His approach soon turned to composing songs within the identifiable traditions of hymnody that began to address concerns missing from the current Scottish hymnal: "I discovered that seldom did our hymns represent the plight of poor people to God. There was nothing that dealt with unemployment, nothing that dealt with living in a multicultural society and feeling disenfranchised. There was nothing about child abuse…,that reflected concern for the developing world, nothing that helped see ourselves as brothers and sisters to those who are suffering from poverty or persecution." [from an interview in Reformed Worship (March 1993)] That concern not only led to writing many songs, but increasingly to introducing them internationally in many conferences, while also gathering songs from around the world. He was convener for the fourth edition of the Church of Scotland’s Church Hymnary (2005), a very different collection from the previous 1973 edition. His books, The Singing Thing and The Singing Thing Too, as well as the many collections of songs and worship resources produced by John Bell—some together with other members of the Iona Community’s “Wild Goose Resource Group,” —are available in North America from GIA Publications. Emily Brink

Marty Haugen

b. 1950 Person Name: Marty Haugen, b. 1950 Scripture: Amos 5:21-24 Author of "Let Justice Roll Like a River" in Gather Comprehensive Marty Haugen (b. 1950), is a prolific liturgical composer with many songs included in hymnals across the liturgical spectrum of North American hymnals and beyond, with many songs translated into different languages. He was raised in the American Lutheran Church, received a BA in psychology from Luther College, yet found his first position as a church musician in a Roman Catholic parish at a time when the Roman Catholic Church was undergoing profound liturgical and musical changes after Vatican II. Finding a vocation in that parish to provide accessible songs for worship, he continued to compose and to study, receiving an MA in pastoral studies at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul Minnesota. A number of liturgical settings were prepared for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and more than 400 of his compositions are available from several publishers, especially GIA Publications, who also produced some 30 recordings of his songs. He is composer-in-residence at Mayflower Community Congregational Church in Minneapolis and continues to compose and travel to speak and teach at worship events around the world. Emily Brink

Albert F. Bayly

1901 - 1984 Scripture: Amos 5:23-24 Author of "Lord, Whose Love Through Humble Service" in The Presbyterian Hymnal Albert F. Bayly was born on September 6, 1901, Bexhill on Sea, Sussex, England. He received his education at London University (BA) and Mansfield College, Oxford. Bayly was a Congregationalist (later United Reformed Church) minister from the late 1920s until his death in 1984. His life and ministry spanned the Depression of the 1930s, the Second World War, and the years of reconstruction which followed. After retiring in 1971, he moved to Springfield, Chelmsford, and was active in the local United Reformed Church. He wrote several pageants on mission themes, and librettos for cantatas by W. L. Lloyd Webber. He died on July 26, 1984 in Chichester, Sussex, England. NN, Hymnary editor. Sources: www.hymntime.com/tch and Church Times, an Anglican newspaper, Tuesday 20 October 2015

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