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Source: Celebrating Grace Hymnal #287
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Author: Fred Pratt Green

The name of the Rev. F. Pratt Green is one of the best-known of the contemporary school of hymnwriters in the British Isles. His name and writings appear in practically every new hymnal and "hymn supplement" wherever English is spoken and sung. And now they are appearing in American hymnals, poetry magazines, and anthologies. Mr. Green was born in Liverpool, England, in 1903. Ordained in the British Methodist ministry, he has been pastor and district superintendent in Brighton and York, and now served in Norwich. There he continued to write new hymns "that fill the gap between the hymns of the first part of this century and the 'far-out' compositions that have crowded into some churches in the last decade or more." --Seven New Hymns o… Go to person page >

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KING'S WESTON

Ralph Vaughan Williams (PHH 316) composed KING'S WESTON for this text. It was published in Songs of Praise (1925). The combination of text and tune in a festive hymn¬-anthem by Vaughan Williams has become a favorite of many church choirs. The tune's title refers to a manor house on the Avon River n…

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Baptist Hymnal 1991 #396

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Celebrating Grace Hymnal #287

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Chalice Hymnal #470

Community of Christ Sings #358

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Hymns for a Pilgrim People #548

Hymns of the Saints #445

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Moravian Book of Worship #651

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Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal #581

Sing and Rejoice! #147

Sing Glory #631

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Sing! A New Creation #265

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The United Methodist Hymnal #592

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The Worshiping Church #722

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Worship and Rejoice #555

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