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Gird us, O God, with humble might

Author: William Hiram Foulkes

Born: June 26, 1877, Quin­cy, Mi­chi­gan. Died: De­cem­ber 9, 1961, Smith­town, New York. Buried: Smith­town, New York. Foulkes grad­uat­ed from the Coll­ege of Em­por­ia, Kan­sas, in 1897 and went on to the Mc­Cor­mick The­o­log­ic­al Sem­in­ary, Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois; he re­ceived the Ber­na­dine Orme Smith Fel­low­ship, and stu­died for a year at New Coll­ege in Ed­in­burgh, Scot­land. He lat­er pas­tored at Pres­by­ter­i­an church­es in El­mi­ra, Il­li­nois; Port­land, Or­e­gon; New York Ci­ty; Cleve­land, Ohio; and New­ark, New Jer­sey. He served as Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary of the Board of Min­is­ter­i­al Re­lief and Sus­ten­ta­tion (1913-18), as chair­man of the New E… Go to person page >

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First Line: Gird us, O God, with humble might
Author: William Hiram Foulkes (1924)
Language: English

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BEATITUDO

Composed by John B. Dykes (PHH 147), BEATITUDO was published in the revised edition of Hymns Ancient and Modern (1875), where it was set to Isaac Watts' "How Bright Those Glorious Spirits Shine." Originally a word coined by Cicero, BEATITUDO means "the condition of blessedness." Like many of Dykes's…

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