O May Thy Church Build Bridges, Lord

Author: Elizabeth Patton Moss

Moss, Elizabeth Patton. Graduate of Coe College. Served as director of Religious Education in the Hood River Presbyterian Church, Portland, Oregon, and previously at the West Side Presbyterian Church, Ridgewood, New Jersey. She and her husband for a number of years were missionaries in Iran under the United Presbyterian Church. --The Hymn Society, DNAH Archives… Go to person page >

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First Line: O may thy church build bridges, Lord, Across the wastes where men have warred
Title: O May Thy Church Build Bridges, Lord
Author: Elizabeth Patton Moss (1958)
Meter: 8.8.8.8
Language: English
Copyright: © 1958 The Hymn Society of America

Tune

GRACE CHURCH (Pleyel)


DUKE STREET

First published anonymously in Henry Boyd's Select Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes (1793), DUKE STREET was credited to John Hatton (b. Warrington, England, c. 1710; d, St. Helen's, Lancaster, England, 1793) in William Dixon's Euphonia (1805). Virtually nothing is known about Hatton, its composer,…

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Hymn Society of America [Hymns Published for Special Occasions, and on Special Subjects] 1942-79 #d167

Hymnal of the Church of God #473

Twelve New World Order Hymns #9

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