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Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith
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: Thirt… Go to person page >
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…
Display Title: Our Father God in heavenFirst Line: Our Father God in heavenTune Title: ELLACOMBEAuthor: Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926)Meter: 76 76 DScripture: Proverbs 31:28; Luke 2:1-8; Ephesians 3:14-19Date: 2013Subject: Children | ; Church Year | Christmas; Family and Friends | ; Love for Others | ; Mary | ; Mothering Sunday | ; Stages of Life |