O Church of God, United

Author: Frederick B. Morley

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First Line: O church of God, united to serve one common Lord
Title: O Church of God, United
Author: Frederick B. Morley (1953)
Meter: 7.6.7.6 D
Language: English
Copyright: Words © 1954, renewed 1982 The Hymn Society of America

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ELLACOMBE

Published in a chapel hymnal for the Duke of Würtemberg (Gesangbuch der Herzogl, 1784), ELLACOMBE (the name of a village in Devonshire, England) was first set to the words "Ave Maria, klarer und lichter Morgenstern." During the first half of the nineteenth century various German hymnals altered the…

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