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Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.6.7.6 Appears in 2 hymnals Lyrics: 1 A King on high is reigning whom endless ages bless, from sea to sea sustaining his rule of righteousness. Beneath his strong defending his people stand secure, whose justice knows no ending while sun and moon endure. 2 As rains that gently nourish and bring the seed to birth, his righteousness shall flourish, his peace possess the earth; her sceptered kings acclaim him, before his feet they fall, the nations kneel to name him the sov'reign Lord of all. 3 The poor are in his keeping, he hears their bitter cry, his watchfulness unsleeping to answer ev'ry sigh; the lonely and neglected, the outcast and in need, forsaken and rejected, to him are dear indeed. 4 His name endures for ever who formed the fertile land; the fruits of our endeavor shall prosper in his hand. With prayer and song and story his praises sound again, in all the earth his glory; so be it, Lord! Amen! Topics: Christmas Season; Epiphany of our Lord; Epiphany Season; God as King of Kings; Missions; Peace Scripture: Psalm 72 Used With Tune: LANCASHIRE

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LANCASHIRE

Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.6.7.6 Appears in 685 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Henry T. Smart Tune Sources: Setting: The Lutheran Hymnal, 1941, alt. Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 55346 53114 56255 Used With Text: A King on High Is Reigning

LE MAIRE

Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.6.7.6 Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: G Le Maire Barnes 1885-1940 Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 53432 12342 54355 Used With Text: A king on high is reigning

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A King on High Is Reigning

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith Hymnal: Christian Worship #72B (2021) Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.6.7.6 Lyrics: 1 A King on high is reigning whom endless ages bless, from sea to sea sustaining his rule of righteousness. Beneath his strong defending his people stand secure, whose justice knows no ending while sun and moon endure. 2 As rains that gently nourish and bring the seed to birth, his righteousness shall flourish, his peace possess the earth; her sceptered kings acclaim him, before his feet they fall, the nations kneel to name him the sov'reign Lord of all. 3 The poor are in his keeping, he hears their bitter cry, his watchfulness unsleeping to answer ev'ry sigh; the lonely and neglected, the outcast and in need, forsaken and rejected, to him are dear indeed. 4 His name endures for ever who formed the fertile land; the fruits of our endeavor shall prosper in his hand. With prayer and song and story his praises sound again, in all the earth his glory; so be it, Lord! Amen! Topics: Christmas Season; Epiphany of our Lord; Epiphany Season; God as King of Kings; Missions; Peace Scripture: Psalm 72 Languages: English Tune Title: LANCASHIRE

A king on high is reigning

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith Hymnal: Praise! psalms hymns and songs for Christian worship #72 (2013) Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.6.7.6 Topics: The Son His Ascension and Reign; The Son His Return in Glory; International occasions; Relief and development work Scripture: Psalm 72 Languages: English Tune Title: LE MAIRE

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Timothy Dudley-Smith

1926 - 2024 Author of "A King on High Is Reigning" in Christian Worship 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

Henry Thomas Smart

1813 - 1879 Person Name: Henry T. Smart Composer of "LANCASHIRE" in Christian Worship Henry Smart (b. Marylebone, London, England, 1813; d. Hampstead, London, 1879), a capable composer of church music who wrote some very fine hymn tunes (REGENT SQUARE, 354, is the best-known). Smart gave up a career in the legal profession for one in music. Although largely self taught, he became proficient in organ playing and composition, and he was a music teacher and critic. Organist in a number of London churches, including St. Luke's, Old Street (1844-1864), and St. Pancras (1864-1869), Smart was famous for his extemporizations and for his accompaniment of congregational singing. He became completely blind at the age of fifty-two, but his remarkable memory enabled him to continue playing the organ. Fascinated by organs as a youth, Smart designed organs for important places such as St. Andrew Hall in Glasgow and the Town Hall in Leeds. He composed an opera, oratorios, part-songs, some instrumental music, and many hymn tunes, as well as a large number of works for organ and choir. He edited the Choralebook (1858), the English Presbyterian Psalms and Hymns for Divine Worship (1867), and the Scottish Presbyterian Hymnal (1875). Some of his hymn tunes were first published in Hymns Ancient and Modern (1861). Bert Polman