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Thanks Be to God for His Saints of Each Past Generation

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: [Thanks Be to God for His Saints of Each Past Generation] Text Sources: A House of Praise (Hope Publishing Company,, 2003)

Meter: 14.14.4.7.8 Appears in 413 hymnals Tune Sources: German 17th-century melody harmonised by Editors of The Chorale Book for England, 1863 Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 11532 17656 7121 Used With Text: Thanks be to God for his saints of each past generation

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Thanks be to God for his saints of each past generation

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Hymnal: Ancient and Modern #310 (2013) Meter: 14.14.4.7.8 Lyrics: 1 Thanks be to God for his saints of each past generation, one with us still in one body, one great congregation; with them proclaim Jesus for ever the same, Author of life and salvation. 2 Thanks be to God for his blessings which daily surround us; glory to Christ, the Redeemer who sought us and found us, who from the grave rose, the almighty to save, breaking the fetters that bound us. 3 Thanks be to God for the years that are yet in his keeping, trusting each day to the care of a Father unsleeping, on to the end, Christ our companion and friend, joy at the last for our weeping. 4 Thanks be to God who has called us and daily defends us, who with the Son and the Spirit unchanging befriends us; now in that name, Jesus for ever the same, forth to his service he sends us. Topics: All Saints' (Sun)day Year C; Blessing; Church nature of; Church Year Easter; Communion of Saints; Deliverance; Discipleship; Other Saints and Festivals Andrew the Apostle; Pilgrimage; Stages of Life; Vocation; Saints Scripture: Hebrews 13:8 Languages: English Tune Title: LOBE DEN HERREN

Thanks Be to God for His Saints of Each Past Generation

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith Hymnal: Scripture Song Database #3235 (2008) First Line: [Thanks Be to God for His Saints of Each Past Generation] Scripture: Hebrews 13 Languages: English

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Timothy Dudley-Smith

b. 1926 Person Name: Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Author of "Thanks be to God for his saints of each past generation" in Ancient and Modern 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