As We Leave This Friendly Place

As we leave this friendly place

Author: Vincent B. Silliman (1935)
Tune: SEGNE UNS
Published in 5 hymnals

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As we leave this friendly place,
Love give light to every face;
May the kindness which we learn
Light our hearts till we return.

Source: Worship in Song: A Friends Hymnal #330

Author: Vincent B. Silliman

Silliman, Rev. Vincent Brown, D.D. (Hudson, Wisconsin, June 29, 1894-Feb. 1979, Yarmouth, Maine). He graduated from Meadville Theological School in 1920 and from the University of Minnesota in 1925. He served Unitarian churches in Buffalo, New York; Portland, Maine; Hollis, N.Y.; and Chicago, Illinois. He was a member of the committee which edited The Beacon Song and Service Book for Children and Young People (1935), and edited We Sing of Life (1955), an unusual collection of songs for children and young people, with a strong ethical emphasis, some set to familiar hymn tunes, others to interesting folk music. Mr. Silliman contributed to words of several songs. One of them, beginning "Morning, so fair to see" is also included in Hymns of the… Go to person page >

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First Line: As we leave this friendly place
Title: As We Leave This Friendly Place
Author: Vincent B. Silliman (1935)
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

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Worship in Song #330

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