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O Father, we Thy little things

Author: Stuart Hodgson Appears in 2 hymnals Used With Tune: ROSY SEQUENCE

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ROSY SEQUENCE

Appears in 1 hymnal Incipit: 36534 21131 45432 Used With Text: O Father, we Thy little things
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PEBMARSH

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: A. H. Brown Incipit: 24533 11225 64322 Used With Text: O Father, we Thy little things

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O Father, we Thy little things

Author: Stuart Hodgson Hymnal: The Church and School Hymnal #232a (1926) Languages: English Tune Title: PEBMARSH
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O Father, we Thy little things

Author: Stuart Hodgson Hymnal: The Church and School Hymnal #232b (1926) Languages: English Tune Title: ROSY SEQUENCE

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Arthur Henry Brown

1830 - 1926 Person Name: A. H. Brown Composer of "PEBMARSH" in The Church and School Hymnal Born: Ju­ly 24, 1830, Brent­wood, Es­sex, Eng­land. Died: Feb­ru­a­ry 15, 1926, Brent­wood, Es­sex, Eng­land. Almost com­plete­ly self taught, Brown be­gan play­ing the or­gan at the age 10. He was or­gan­ist of the Brent­wood Par­ish Church, Es­sex (1842-53); St. Ed­ward’s, Rom­ford (1853-58); Brent­wood Par­ish Church (1858-88); St. Pe­ter’s Church, South Weald (from 1889); and Sir An­tho­ny Browne’s School (to 1926). A mem­ber of the Lon­don Gre­gor­i­an As­so­ci­a­tion, he helped as­sem­ble the Ser­vice Book for the an­nu­al fes­tiv­al in St. Paul’s Ca­thed­ral. He sup­port­ed the Ox­ford Move­ment, and pi­o­neered the res­tor­a­tion of plain­chant and Gre­gor­i­an mu­sic in Ang­li­can wor­ship. Brown ed­it­ed var­i­ous pub­li­ca­tions, in­clud­ing the Al­tar Hym­nal. His other works in­clude set­tings of the Can­ti­cles and the Ho­ly Com­mun­ion Ser­vice, a Child­ren’s Fes­tiv­al Serv­ice, an­thems, songs, part songs, and over 800 hymn tunes and car­ols. Music: Alleluia! Sing the Tri­umph Arthur Dale Ab­bey Fields of Gold Are Glow­ing Gerran Holy Church Holy Rood If An­gels Sang Our Sav­ior’s Birth Lammas O, Sing We a Car­ol Purleigh Redemptor Mun­di Ring On, Ye Joy­ous Christ­mas Bells Saffron Wal­den St. An­a­tol­i­us St. Aus­tell St. John Dam­as­cene St. Ma­byn St. So­phro­ni­us Story of the Cross Sweet Child Di­vine --www.hymntime.com/tch

Stuart Hodgson

Author of "O Father, we Thy little things" in The Church and School Hymnal
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