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Author: Edward A. Church, d. 1929 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: Almighty Builder, bless, we pray Lyrics: 1 Almighty Builder, bless, we pray, The cornerstone that here we lay; And fair above it may we see A house to serve mankind and Thee! 2 In truth be these foundations laid, Each ordered course in wisdom made, That firm these rising walls may stand, Thy witness in a waiting land. 3 So shall Thy people honor yet The sure foundation Thou hast set, In prophets and apostles known. With Jesus Christ the cornerstone. 4 Eternal One, to Thee we raise This house of service and of praise; Thy love and glory shall not fade When all earth's temples low are laid. Amen. Scripture: 1 Corinthians 3:13 Used With Tune: FEDERAL STREET

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FEDERAL STREET

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 638 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Henry K. Oliver Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 33343 55434 44334 Used With Text: Almighty Builder, Bless

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Almighty Builder, Bless

Author: Edward A. Church, d. 1929 Hymnal: The Hymnal of The Evangelical United Brethren Church #348 (1957) Meter: 8.8.8.8 First Line: Almighty Builder, bless, we pray Lyrics: 1 Almighty Builder, bless, we pray, The cornerstone that here we lay; And fair above it may we see A house to serve mankind and Thee! 2 In truth be these foundations laid, Each ordered course in wisdom made, That firm these rising walls may stand, Thy witness in a waiting land. 3 So shall Thy people honor yet The sure foundation Thou hast set, In prophets and apostles known. With Jesus Christ the cornerstone. 4 Eternal One, to Thee we raise This house of service and of praise; Thy love and glory shall not fade When all earth's temples low are laid. Amen. Scripture: 1 Corinthians 3:13 Tune Title: FEDERAL STREET

Almighty Builder, bless, we pray

Author: Edward A. Church Hymnal: The Churches of God Hymnal. #d19 (1953)

Almighty Builder, bless, we pray

Author: Edward A. Church Hymnal: Hymns of the Spirit for Use in the Free Churches of America #456 (1937) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Languages: English Tune Title: FEDERAL STREET

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Henry K. Oliver

1800 - 1885 Composer of "FEDERAL STREET" in The Hymnal of The Evangelical United Brethren Church Henry Kemble Oliver (b. Beverly, MA, 1800; d. Salem, MA, 1885) was educated at Harvard and Dartmouth. He taught in the public schools of Salem (1818-1842) and was superintendent of the Atlantic Cotton Mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts (1848-1858). His civic service included being mayor of Lawrence (18591861) and Salem (1877-1880), state treasurer (1861-1865), and organizer of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics and Labor (1867-1873). Oliver was organist at several churches, including Park Street Congregational Church in Boston, North Church in Salem, and the Unitarian Church in Lawrence. A founder of the Mozart Association and several choral societies in Salem, he published his hymn tunes in Hymn and Psalm Tunes (1860) and Original Hymn Tunes (1875). Bert Polman

Edward A. Church

1844 - 1929 Person Name: Edward A. Church, d. 1929 Author of "Almighty Builder, Bless" in The Hymnal of The Evangelical United Brethren Church Church, Edward Alonzo. (Boston, Massachusetts, 1844--January 29, 1929, Roxbury, Massachusetts). He was a business man who wrote in 1904, for the laying of the cornerstone of the new edifice for the Church of the Disciples (Unitarian), Boston, of which he was a member, a hymn beginning "Almighty Builder, bless, we pray, The cornerstone that here we lay." The next year, for the final service in the old edifice which the congregation was leaving, he wrote a hymn beginning "O Thou to whom in prayer and praise, We here have turned with constant heart." Both hymns were included in The New Hymn and Tune Book, 1914, and the first is also in Hymns of the Spirit, 1937. --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives