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Let There Be Light

Author: Frances Wheeler Davis Meter: 4.7.7.6 Appears in 10 hymnals First Line: Let there be light, Let there be understanding

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CONCORD

Meter: 4.7.7.6 Appears in 9 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Robert J. B. Fleming Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 31655 65123 22345 Used With Text: Let There Be Light

SPRAGUE

Meter: 4.7.7.6 Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: David Hurd, b. 1950 Tune Key: a minor Incipit: 72177 65461 11321 Used With Text: Let There Be Light

WEBSTER GROVES

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Ronald Arnatt (b. 1930) Incipit: 56712 12345 55432 Used With Text: Let there be light

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Let there be light

Author: Frances Wheeler Davis (b. 1946) Hymnal: More Hymns and Spiritual Songs #75 (1971) Topics: Brotherhood and the Family of Nations Languages: English Tune Title: WEBSTER GROVES
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Let There Be Light

Author: Frances W. Davis, 1936-1976 Hymnal: Singing the Living Tradition #142 (1993) Meter: 4.7.7.6 Lyrics: 1 Let there be light, let there be understanding, let all the nations gather, let them be face to face. 2 Open our lips, open our minds to ponder, open the door of concord opening into grace. 3 Perish the sword, perish the angry judgment, perish the bombs and hunger, perish the fight for gain. 4 Let there be light, open our hearts to wonder, perish the way of terror, hallow the world God made. Topics: Words and Deeds of Prophetic Women and Men In Time To Come; Nations; Peace and War; Wisdom and Understanding Languages: English Tune Title: CONCORD
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Let There Be Light

Author: Frances W. Davis Hymnal: The United Methodist Hymnal #440 (1989) Meter: 4.7.7.6 Topics: Sanctifiying and Perfecting Grace Social Holiness; Kingdom of God; Light; Peace, World; Social Concerns Languages: English Tune Title: CONCORD (Fleming)

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David Hurd

b. 1950 Person Name: David Hurd, b. 1950 Composer of "SPRAGUE" in Worship (3rd ed.) David Hurd (b. Brooklyn, New York, 1950) was a boy soprano at St. Gabriel's Church in Hollis, Long Island, New York. Educated at Oberlin College and the University of North Carolina, he has been professor of church music and organist at General Theological Seminary in New York since 1976. In 1985 he also became director of music for All Saints Episcopal Church, New York. Hurd is an outstanding recitalist and improvisor and a composer of organ, choral, and instrumental music. In 1987 David Hurd was awarded the degree of Doctor of Music, honoris causa, by the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale. The following year he received honorary doctorates from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley, California, and from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois. His I Sing As I Arise Today, the collected hymn tunes of David Hurd, was published in 2010. Bert Polman and Emily Brink

Frances Wheeler Davis

b. 1936 Person Name: Frances W. Davis Author of "Let There Be Light" in The United Methodist Hymnal Davis, Frances Mina (Wheeler). (Winnipeg, Manitoba, November 18, 1936-- ). Anglican. University of Manitoba, B.A., 1958; University of Toronto, M.A., 1962. In 1959, she married Dan Bryan Davis. She has contributed prose and verse to many Canadian periodicals; also to a collection of hymns privately published for use at St. George's Church, Ste.-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, from which one of her hymns found its way into The Hymn Book, (1971). --Hugh McKellar, DNAH Archives

Robert Fleming

1921 - 1976 Person Name: Robert J. B. Fleming Composer of "CONCORD (Fleming)" in The United Methodist Hymnal
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