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Fruitful Trees, the Spirit's Sowing

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 6 hymnals Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project

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DOROTHY

Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 9 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Ralph C. Schultz, b. 1932 Hymnal Title: Lutheran Service Book Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 55316 65144 34566 Used With Text: Fruitful Trees, the Spirit's Sowing
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ALL FOR JESUS

Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 93 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John Stainer (1840-1901) Hymnal Title: Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 35176 55435 13212 Used With Text: Fruitful Trees, the Spirit's Sowing

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Fruitful Trees, the Spirit's Sowing

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith, b. 1926 Hymnal: Christian Worship #595 (2021) Meter: 7.7.7.7 Hymnal Title: Christian Worship First Line: Fruitful tress, the Spirit's sowing Lyrics: 1 Fruitful trees, the Spirit's sowing, may we ripen and increase, fruit to life eternal growing, rich in love and joy and peace. 2 Laden branches freely bearing gifts the Giver loves to bless; here is fruit that grows by sharing, patience, kindness, gentleness. 3 Rooted deep in Christ our Master, Christ our pattern and our goal, teach us, as the years fly faster, goodness, faith, and self-control. 4 Fruitful trees, the Spirit's tending, may we grow till harvests cease; till we taste, in life unending, heaven's love and joy and peace. Topics: Work of the Spirit Scripture: John 15:1-9 Languages: English Tune Title: DOROTHY

Fruitful trees, the Spirit’s sowing

Hymnal: Church Hymnal, Fifth Edition #311 (2000) Hymnal Title: Church Hymnal, Fifth Edition
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Fruitful Trees, the Spirit's Sowing

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith, b. 1926 Hymnal: Hymnal Supplement 98 #875 (1998) Meter: 8.7.8.7 Hymnal Title: Hymnal Supplement 98 Lyrics: 1 Fruitful trees, the Spirit's sowing, May we ripen and increase, Fruit to life eternal growing, Rich in love and joy and peace. 2 Laden branches freely bearing Gifts the Giver loves to bless; Here is fruit that grows by sharing: Patience, kindness, gentleness. 3 Rooted deep in Christ our Master, Christ our pattern and our goal, Teach us, as the years fly faster, Goodness, faith and self-control. 4 Fruitful trees, the Spirit's tending, May we grow till harvests cease; Till we taste, in life unending, Heaven's love and joy and peace. Topics: Commitment; Confirmation; Education, Christian; Life, Christian; Love and Obedience Scripture: John 15:1-9 Languages: English Tune Title: DOROTHY

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Ralph C. Schultz

b. 1932 Person Name: Ralph C. Schultz, b. 1932 Hymnal Title: Lutheran Service Book Composer of "DOROTHY" in Lutheran Service Book

Timothy Dudley-Smith

b. 1926 Person Name: Timothy Dudley-Smith (1926- ) Hymnal Title: Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal Author of "Fruitful Trees, the Spirit's Sowing" in Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Educated at Pembroke College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge, Dudley-Smith has served the Church of England since his ordination in 1950. He has occupied a number of church posi­tions, including parish priest in the diocese of Southwark (1953-1962), archdeacon of Norwich (1973-1981), and bishop of Thetford, Norfolk, from 1981 until his retirement in 1992. He also edited a Christian magazine, Crusade, which was founded after Billy Graham's 1955 London crusade. Dudley-Smith began writing comic verse while a student at Cambridge; he did not begin to write hymns until the 1960s. Many of his several hundred hymn texts have been collected in Lift Every Heart: Collected Hymns 1961-1983 (1984), Songs of Deliverance: Thirty-six New Hymns (1988), and A Voice of Singing (1993). The writer of Christian Literature and the Church (1963), Someone Who Beckons (1978), and Praying with the English Hymn Writers (1989), Dudley-Smith has also served on various editorial committees, including the committee that published Psalm Praise (1973). Bert Polman

John Stainer

1840 - 1901 Person Name: John Stainer (1840-1901) Hymnal Title: Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal Composer of "ALL FOR JESUS" in Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal